CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Hand and nail expert (10)

7. Command (5)

8. One more (7)

10. Corridors (8)

11. And (4)

13. Whirled about (6)

15. Prohibited (6)

17. Duct (4)

18. Conjuror (8)

21. Transport workers (7)

22. Relative (5)

23. Aloofness (10) Down

1. Fashions (5)

2. Relates (8)

3. Wading birds (6)

4. Chess piece (4)

5. Student (7) 6. One who works together with another (2-8)

9. Homes (10)

12. Card game (8)

14. Receding sea (3,4)

16. Protruding belly (6)

19. Motionless (5)

20. Girl's name (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1. One who works at an establishment that changes hands (10) 7. The discipline of a fraternity (5)

8. One more on earth, maybe (7)

10. Scholar coming in to approve certain extracts (8) 11. Indicating an addition that's almost luxurious (4) 13. In the long grass, the French made unsteady progress (6) 15. Fastened up, like a public house (6)

17. A means of communication by pipeline? (4)

18. It's a wonder he works (8) 21. Variety of mineral required for those working on the track (7) 22. Relative returns from Greece incognito (5) 23. A specialised military unit showing withdrawal symptoms? (10)

Down

1. The styles of a great many

poems (5)

2. Ran up the charges –

presents an account (8)

3. They are used for raising

birds (6)

4. Swindle a man on the

board (4)

5. A pundit who's taught

many a lesson (7)

6. One willing to help the

company telephonist (2-8)

9. More than one dwelling is

screened badly (10)

12. It's meant to be

played by one showing

forbearance (8)

14. Current recession (3,4)

16. A blow round a bulging

midriff (6)

19. Not moving from the

container terminal (5)

20. She is the first person to

go back to mother! (4)