CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Intimately (10) 7. Acquire knowledge (5) 8. Wary (7) 10. Individual characteristics (8) 11. Wagers (4)

13. Capacitate (6)

15. Follow (6)

17. Objectives (4)

18. Sacred (8)

21. Hearing distance (7) 22. Locomotive (5)

23. Heads of state (10)

Down

1. Skeleton (5) 2. Precisely (8) 3. Illuminates (6) 4. Slightly open (4) 5. Rips in stockings (7) 6. Unable to read or write (10) 9. Offspring (10) 12. Report (8) 14. Suitor (7) 16. Lingered (6) 19. Dons (5)

20. Not that (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. 7. He too Find fibs freely out in and (10) the incline household to 8. be Cautious about right when (5) in 10. custody? Recognisable (7) sign of tiny diet (8)

11. They are usually at odds (8)

13. Make possible to be lean, perhaps (6)

15. Chase moneybag containing letter (6)

17. Intends to put one in a manuscript (4)

18. Holy aspirate permitted (8)

21. Burning organs within hearing distance? (7)

22. Coach to keep on the rails? (5) 23. The people who live at Peterhead are top people (10)

Down

1. It may be about a picture (5) 2. In great detail 60 times an hour it would seem (8)

3. Mental powers should dispel the gloom (6)

4. Partly open a container (4)

5. They gamely take on snakes first (7)

6. Badly repeat, being unable to read (10)

9. Person with ancestors will come down to worker (10)

12. Report from loaded gun? (8)

14. Am rider and beau (7)

16. Deferred action but served the food (6)

19. Is clad in merchandise, we hear (5)

20. The one here in North Island (4)