CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Tip one's hat (4)

3. Collector (8)

8. Hint (4)

9. Instrument (8)

11. Alienation (12)

13. Hit (6)

14. Farm building (6)

17. Lack of concern (12)

20. Inspire (8)

21. Visit (4)

22. Gave up (8)

23. Loan (4)

Down

1. Diminish (8)

2. Flap (7)

4. Do a favour for (6)

5. Commanding (10)

6. Ex-Russian premier (5)

7. Rank (4)

10. Talking spitefully about absentee (10)

12. Annulled (8)

15. Dressing (7)

16. Work premises (6)

18. Facial features (5)

19. Layer (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Remove dunderhead –

he's leaving! (4)

3. He sets 8 (heaps of

them?) (8)

8. For once it's the puzzler's

answer (4)

9. Wine passed round in

instrument (8)

11. Unknown people enter

and French disaffection

results (12)

13. What the match needs is

a stoppage (6)

14. Where to find a steady

horse? (6)

17. Apathy during

dispute (12)

20. Infuse dutch courage? (8)

21. Shout that the score is

100-100 (4)

22. Gave up the job, being

submissive (8)

23. Advance a pound

at last (4)

Down

1. 2. Unfold? smaller Gambler's (8) No agitation? – make (7)

4. Please by bursting boil,

for example (6)

5. Imperious peer seen

about Conservative

MP (10)

6. Leonard is at home as

Communist leader (5)

7. Tear round at speed (4)

10. Attack on defender

in absence the referee

wouldn't stand for (10)

12. Revoked so sounded the

bells again (8)

15. Dressing makes the

orchestra older! (7)

16. The secretaries can't

skate here! (6)

18. Concludes prognoses on

facial projections (5)

19. One rank in a sortie

resolves the problem (4)

SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS CROSSWORD

Across: 1 Stocktaking; 9 Rotator; 10 Close; 11 Villa; 12 Bustled; 13 Desist; 15 Reason; 18 Uniform; 20 Pupil; 22 Tired; 23 Go-ahead; 24 Opera singer. Down: 2 Total; 3 Cutlass; 4 Throbs; 5 Kicks; 6 Noodles; 7 Grave doubts; 8 Leading lady; 14 Stirrup; 16 Explain; 17 Images; 19 Order; 21 Piece.