Crossword 2

CRYPTICCLUES

Across

1. Check the current trend (4,3,4)

9. One unsettled age (3)

10. Harmony by one on the concertina (9)

11. Inebriated, but certainly not relaxed (5)

13. The kind of table for sorting letters (7)

14. The model is an easy target (6)

16. They sharpen up the race-meetings on return (6) 18. Put into another form (7) 19. Be a paying guest at the gatehouse (5)

20 & 22Ac. Continuing to have stage-work and maintaining respectability (7,2,11)

21 & 2Dn. Being diverted from Athens, don’t waste a second (6) 22. See 20 Across

Down

2. See 21 Across

3. This adaptation of Manet is not accidental (5)

4. Part of the catechism supplied by the head of the witches (6)

5. Turbulent stream causing fissure near the bottom of the hill (7)

6. Is this washed up when there’s a heap of snow near the forest (5-4)

7. Blow producing fatal seizure? (5-6)

8. One represents a mixture to scatter in between (11)

12. You may be caught napping if you do (2,2,5)

15. Inspect a hatchet that’s brought up near the pit (7)

17. One who asks for breakfast food in the pub! (6)

19. Flowering plant put up in endless line (5)

21. Hurry from the church I entered (3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Inexactness (11) 9. Conclusion (3) 10. Warranty (9)

11. Incident (5)

13. Intensify (7)

14. Happens (6)

16. Self-assurance (6) 18. Stimulus (7)

19. Coach (5)

20. All-embracing (9) 21. Wager (3)

22. Irrational (11)

Down

2. Frenzied (3) 3. Correct (5) 4. Cowardly (6) 5. Crash (5-2) 6. Utter (3-3-3) 7. Formal (11) 8. Echo (11)

12. Objection (9) 15. Ease (7)

17. Against (6) 19. Claw (5)

21. Small cake (3)