CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. 9. Casual Sickness (4,3,4) (7)

10. Prerogative (5)

11. Compel (5)

12. Thrown away (4,3)

13. Esteem (6)

15. Stretch out (6)

18. Agriculture (7) 20. Criminal act of setting fire (5)

22. Antelope (5)

23. Business (7)

24. Character (11)

Down

2. Sovereign (5) 3. Component (7) 4. Perceive (6) 5. Gains (5) 6. Spanish Mrs (7) 7. Sibling by parent's marriage (4-7) 8. Pomposity (11) 14. Booty (7) 16. Lively (7)

17. Get back (6) 19. S. American mountains (5) 21. Move (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. It costs nothing, it's simple, it's informal (4,3,4)

9. Let main disease emerge (7)

10. The correct side? (5)

11. Body of men who believe in coercion? (5)

12. Expect the actors on strike (4,3)

13. Get up tree, somehow, to show esteem (6)

15. Spread out in crisp, raw lettuce (6)

18. Cultivation up to decline of life? (7)

20. Fire-raising by clergyman who lost his head (5)

22. Animal from oriental country (5)

23. If as far as matters go (7)

24. Character type no liars could have (11)

Down

2. Head measure of state of things? to get (5) the

3. Make egghead allow men to enter in proper state (7)

4. Observe it isn't frozen water (6)

5. Merits what listeners give Poles (5)

6. Soaring like a lady? (7)

7. Relation in semireligious order? (4-7) 8. The majesty of a ship belonging to the nationalised fleet? (11)

14. Plunder pithead fort in 18 (7)

16. Sportive like an inspired dramatist? (7)

17. Get back for example in wet weather (6)

19. Also two points in the mountains (5)

21. The artifice of a relay of workers (5)