CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

4. Irritated (7)

8. Writing tool (6)

9. Marred (7)

10. Cricket team (6)

11. Respiration (6)

12. Repugnance (8)

18. A variable resistance (8)

20. Elderly governess (6)

21. Cheek dent (6) 22. Undesired flow of current (7)

23. Attack (6)

24. Shaved head (7)

Down

1. Disperses (7)

2. Opposite (7)

3. The flicks (6)

5. N.B. unabbreviated (4,4)

6. Believes (6)

7. Builds (6)

13. Alien (8)

14. Temporary substitute (7)

15. Piloted (7)

16. Dinner jacket (6)

17. Serpents (6)

19. East (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

4. In a bad temper the day none came round (7)

8. Pointed writer (6)

9. Marked dates in wrongly (7)

10. One's double in figures (6)

11. You need to be quick to take one (6)

12. Aversion is stated another way (8)

18. Rambling rose that gives varied resistance (8)

20. Young female accompanist (6)

21. People with such a depression may still look happy (6)

22. A breach of security (7) 23. Be an unwanted visitor from abroad (6)

24. Haircut that's in order (7) Down

1. Lays out feasts (7)

2. How a poet writes upside-down (7)

3. Entertainment that's a nice change to mother (6)

5. A bent one needs re-shaping, don't forget (4,4)

6. Thinks of love and languishes (6)

7. Puts up secret amendments (6)

13. Not the more usual foreigner (8)

14. Allow no opening for a substitute (7)

15. Guided a horse holding half the rein (7) 16. Statesmen may wear it with a black tie (6)

17. These creepers could be poisonous (6)

19. Possibly tore in from the East (6)