CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Solace (11) 9. Ex-Soviet military force (3,4)

10. Up to (5)

11. Rim (5)

12. Prepare with sandpaper

(3,4)

13. Keyboard operator (6) 15. Disposable handkerchief

(6)

18. Locks (7)

20. South American Indian (5) 22. Fruit (5)

23. Flags (7)

24. Electric motor (4-7)

Down

2. Sequence (5)

3. Carriages (7)

4. Tiers (6)

5. Digit (5)

6. Surpasses (7)

7. Attraction (11)

8. Musket (11)

14. Versify (7)

16. Tooth (7)

17. Agree (6)

19. Ledge (5)

21. Scoundrel (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. I cannot solo properly in comfort (11)

9. Dram mixed with rye for a revolutionary body (3,4) 10. While Attila, for example, loses his head, Matilda gives her heart (5)

11. A few with a bit of energy approach eastern edge (5) 12. Dry off as a duck might? (3,4)

13. Key worker in the office (6)

15. It's Susan, so to speak, with a pack of lies (6) 18. Locks badly reset about the ship (7)

20. Native South American bean from the sea (5) 22. Girl in demand for cocktails! (5)

23. They fly from ships at sea (7)

24. You may need a crank to get going without this (4-7)

Down

2. 3. 4. Arrange English conveyances? Fifty hectic county's command years (7) for (5) eggproducers 5. Skippers do (6) it through the 6. book Beats (5) fleet-footed females in the end (7)

7. An attraction: tipsy navigator takes it in (11)

8. Can be fired for errors involving the coach (11)

14. Versify? Some practise under a macabre writer (7)

16. Commonly used for chopping food! (7)

17. Agree - a sound climb (6) 19. She is certainly in it - and could be on it! (5)

21. Wild game to stay away from (5)