Crossword 1

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Linen wasn’t designed for this game! (4,6)

7. Competitor half near missing getting there! (5)

8. Went to bed having finished work (7)

10. Evil turn very harmful to health (8)

11. Quit political wing (4)

13. Begin a journey with radio not working? (3,3)

15. Artist on pillar produces sword (6)

17. Capital of Czechoslovakia (4) 18. Lay gowns lengthwise (8) 21. Pure ice for somebody with fastidious tastes (7)

22. Strengthen a couple (5) 23. Addicted to perfume like a good detective? (2,3,5)

Down

1. Learner has fallen - he’s lost his heart! (5)

2. Undomesticated creatures’ licentious existence? (8) 3. Despot in the party ran things terribly (6)

4. The trappings of fishing? (4) 5. Iris Lea becomes Middle Easterner (7)

6. The most serious single monument (10)

9. Reds try out revolutionary shift list (4,6)

12. Bleating about being able to be touched (8)

14. Not like the author who wrote about the ring (7)

16. Seldom poses (6)

19. A bit set aside (5)

20. He gives embrace to hothead (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Public display (10)

7. Sea (5)

8. Inconsistent (7)

10. Catastrophe (8)

11. Profit (4)

13. Systematic plan (6)

15. Straight (6)

17. Small whirlpool (4)

18. Great elation (8)

21. Demoted from a team (7) 22. Group of witches (5) 23. Tall building (10)

Down

1. Fifty-fifty odds (5) 2. Good-looking (8) 3. Beer-maker (6) 4. Conservative (4)

5. Gross violation of decency (7) 6. Deign (10)

9. Inhibition (10)

12. Bedtime drink (8)

14. Food fish (7)

16. Homicide (6)

19. Waterway (5)

20. Musical work (4)