CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Omit (4) 3. Portend (8) 8. Require (4) 9. Security (8) 11. Furniture craftsman (7,5) 13. Hold (6) 14. Composition (6) 17. However (12) 20. Judicial (8) 21. Lengthy (4) 22. Wandering (8) 23. Elizabeth, in short (4)

Down

1. Hand care (8) 2. Sweet powder (7) 4. Warm (6) 5. Additional insurance (5,5) 6. Topic (5) 7. Bird home (4) 10. Evasively (10) 12. Corridors (8) 15. Flower (7) 16. Tension (6) 18. Glowing coal (5) 19. Girl (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. 3. 8. 9. Spinster Use about A editions Speed requirement menaces odd for (4) off the rate target afterwards fortress? (8) of fine (4) 11. (8) Craftsman premier? (7,5) becomes 13. 14. Keep Boy working thanks in on check a (6) musical composition (6) 17. Yet the smaller one isn't ever chosen (12) 20. Bar trial of umpire (8) 21. Yearn for a fair bit of time (4) 22. Sting ray not on the straight and narrow (8) 23. Elizabeth makes sailor leave head of convent (4)

Down

1. 2. 4. Handy She drink Cordial, mixes (7) treatment? and Bert possibly a cooling (8) 5. earthy Additional (6) protection in 6. the Subject fields? of article (5,5) on No.1 (5) 7. Comfy home on one street (4) 10. At home quickly - by a diversion (10) 12. Spend a very long time in corridors (8) 15. Strange name given to a single flower (7) 16. Over-exertion to produce a tune? (6) 18. Live coal at the end of the last month (5) 19. Girl causes many to leave student group (4)