Crossword 1

CRYPTICCLUES

Across

4. Unusually astute about the right physical size (7)

8. A Spaniard is linked with Venus (6)

9. Music for when the students’ carnival takes place (7)

10. Bird ruining the garden (6) 11. Leafy way to a scene of sporting action (6)

12. Got knocked back with anaesthetic in company with others (8) 18. Heavenly picture? (8)

20. Modern form of painting there’s little work in the piece (3,3)

21. Peal of bells for this kind of Alliance (6)

22. Steel in different form can be stretched (7)

23. Distilled liquid to take away secretly (6)

24. The last word on going for a favourable purchase, we hear (4-3)

Down

1. Anything in New York is verging on the indecorous! (7)

2. The company in time makes money (7)

3. Show the way, as board members do (6)

5. Afternoon function in Boston? (3-5)

6. Rag-and-bone-man to be on the verge of ruin (6) 7. Disturbance created by peculiar Manx cat! (6)

13. Place of refreshment for a crowd on the Spanish railway... (8)

14 . ... The Travellers’ Rest? Find fault with antediluvian structure! (3,4)

15. Leaves sterile regions (7)

16. Spanish town badly looted (6) 17. Was academically successful, but got left behind (6)

19. Writing a copy of the play (6)

QUICK CLUES

Across

4. Show (7)

8. Zero (6) 9. Obtain (7)

10. Involve (6) 11. Fraud (6)

12. Fine (8)

18. Ridicule (8) 20. Pellet (6)

21. Yarn (6)

22. Glutinous (7) 23. Flask (6)

24. Callousness (7)

Down

1. Dishevelled (7) 2. Snippet (7) 3. Tingle (6) 5. Occurrence (8) 6. Bound (6) 7. Skilled (6)

13. Teach (8)

14. Ancestry (7) 15. Green (7)

16. Younger (6) 17. Trite saying (6) 19. Breathe in (6)