CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Unobservant (8) 5. Employs (4) 9. Opera solo (4) 10. Deep brown wood (8) 11. Dwells (on) (5) 12. Veiling (7) 13. Sedatives (8,5) 18. Amaze (8) 19. Hades' river (4) 20. Breed of cat (7) 21. Dish (5)

22. Irish pound (4) 23. Progresses (8)

Down

2. Post by plane (3,4)

3. Specimen (7)

4. Show dissent (5,4,4)

6. Surgical knife (7)

7. Timidity (7)

8. Arrive (4,2)

13. Remains awake (7)

14. Put aboard (7)

15. Wrote (6)

16. What diabetics lack (7)

17. Baby things (7)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Thoughtless advice to those who are overworried (8)

5. Customs applications (4)

9. It's sung in variations (4)

10. Many a creature seen in a wood (8)

11. Sharp crooked instruments (5)

12. A heavenly intervention? (7)

13. If they work, they help the rest (8,5)

18. Surprise shots in a melee (8)

19. Where those for the ferry were always late (4)

20. Such twins were once inseparable (7)

21. S.American flower's variegated petal (5)

22. Stake for river craft (4)

23. Moneylender's overtures? (8)

Down

2. A high post? (3,4)

3. Model, formerly fat? (7)

4. Give no

indication (5,4,4)

6. Knife that is a brave

trophy to the Spanish (7)

7. It's shown by a person

who's retiring (7)

8. Put away the chart and

attend (4,2)

13. Puts off one's

retirement (5,2)

14. Board transport in a

violent rainstorm (7)

15. Written in captivity (6)

16. Specifically used by

diabetics (7)

17. Worn in early life yet

late perhaps (7)

SOLUTIONS TO PREVIOUS CROSSWORD

Across: 1 Result; 4 Clefts; 9 Courts-martial; 10 Redress; 11 Latin; 12 Under; 14 Miner; 18 Amble; 19 High tea; 21 Beauty contest; 22 Riders; 23 Sexton. Down: 1 Record; 2 Sounding board; 3 Lithe; 5 Lorelei; 6 Fair treatment; 7 So long; 8 Smash; 13 Ejector; 15 Barber; 16 Shock; 17 Carton; 20 Genre.