Crossword 1

CRYPTICCLUES

Across

1. Went and delivered - in a sinister manner? (4-6)

7. Gets angry about terms of payment (5)

8. Reproach the child for what she did to her hair? (7)

10. Circulating time of note? (8) 11. Have a breather. Take centre plunge (4)

13. Pamper the Company’s Company (6)

15. For the vessel, turn round extreme ends (6)

17. Unrestricted. Love to write (4)

18. Nothing in small measure. Put a question to a man of note (8)

21. Drink wine and stay (7) 22. Like 14 Down, found in container transport (5)

23. The silent home-birds are the real leaders (10)

Down

1. I’m out of retail, and return afterwards (5)

2. Latched onto diet with a point in the end (8)

3. Got a hunch for loin (6) 4. Lumps of crumbled buns (4) 5. Eve took a cue. But surely she wasn’t there on holiday? (7) 6. Being an early starter - is part cooked in costly container (10) 9. Entered age for lower prestige (10)

12. Stick broken tip on spirit (8) 14. On the track - but he’s hardly on the ball! (7)

16. Debated with low sound about Turkish capital (6)

19. Drops shelters (5)

20. Plenty at the auction (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Vast (10)

7. Seize (5)

8. Rustic (7)

10. Eternally (8) 11. Den (4)

13. Prolong (6)

15. Hold together (6) 17. Absent (4)

18. Tyrannous (8) 21. Blow up (7)

22. Keen (5)

23. Tenacious (10)

Down

1. Heading (5) 2. Digging up (8) 3. Die (6) 4. Precious (4) 5. Ignorant (7) 6. Hasten (10) 9. Sixty (10) 12. Whole (8) 14. Tread on (7) 16. Hollow (6) 19. Fast (5)

20. Forfeit (4)