CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Exclusive control (9) 8. Helmsman (3) 9. Ursine mammal (7,4) 11. Sharp replies (7) 12. Grassed areas (5) 13. Drinking tubes (6) 15. Loan shark (6) 17. Month (5)

18. Splits (7) 20. Procession attendant (5,6) 22. Female sheep (3) 23. Affordable payments (4,5)

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2. Paddle (3) 3. Shaving implement (5) 4. Happiest (6) 5. Latticework structure (7) 6. Tool (11) 7. Developed photographs (9) 10. Translator (11) 11. Began again (9) 14. Well-being (7) 16. Settings (6) 19. Upright (5)

21. Tree (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Yet it's wrong to imitate anything like this (9) 8. Director of a small floating group (3) 9. Unhappy animal from N. America (7,4) 11. Answers which may be dispensed with (7) 12. Statute has two points that need cutting (5) 13. They may be drawn or sucked up (6)

15. His is a very exacting business (6) 17. People are fooled on its opening day (5) 18. Sticks together or splits apart (7)

20. Railway line? (5,6) 22. A female from which few expect leadership (3) 23. Simple conditions a purchaser may like to have (4,5)

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2. It crabs may (3) be used to catch

3. A face woman's to use it hasn't (5) the

4. Yet gas could made one most happy! (6)

5. Something a climber may be raised on (7)

6. Pressure a motorist to provide a tool (11)

7. Disclosures made by photographers (9)

10. He may be required to give an explanation (11) 11. Jack took a break outside and then went back to work (9)

14. The state of Britain today! (7)

16. Views parts of plays (6)

19. Not inclined to build (5)

21. Wood used in modelmaking (3)