Crossword 1

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Come to brain for liniment (11) 9. Is large city in North Africa (7) 10. Nitre is apparently not active (5)

11. Regret each half included in frill (5)

12. It may, of course, be a weighty matter for the traveller (7)

13. Gives share as toll return comes in (6)

15. The finder turns out to be a close associate (6)

18. Glass in traffic controllers? (7) 20. A watering-place in a European country (5)

22. Famous like a musical score? (5)

23. Raise sick eel - a vet badly needed (7)

24. Gift offered to poor mite now (7,4)

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2. A trick business, of course (5) 3. Stagger etc., out to choose in the ballot again (2-5)

4. The French join the actors in a stronghold (6)

5. The result of a bad night? (5) 6. Do theatre work (7)

7. Striking terror as treatment for baldness? (4-7)

8. Number of times present at a number of balls (11)

14. What this barge would be when unloaded (7)

16. Esteem engendered by sceptre? (7)

17. No egghead from the Orient at the back (6)

19. Also two points in the mountains (5)

21. Warning of danger in the federal army (5)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Disappointment (11) 9. Finished work (7) 10. Guide (5)

11. Call on (5)

12. Durable (7)

13. Slim (6)

15. Equivocate (6) 18. Methodical (7) 20. Turn (5)

22. Repeated (5)

23. Chirp (7)

24. Mix (11)

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2. Ceremonies (5) 3. Extend (7) 4. Sift (6) 5. Chores (5) 6. Aperture (7) 7. Tentative (11) 8. In pieces (11) 14. Retracted (7) 16. Applause (7) 17. Method (6) 19. Scope (5) 21. Laud (5)