CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Italian city (4) 8. Composition featuring a single stringed instrument (6,4) 9. Person who supervises a

recording (8)

10. Weaving machine (4) 12. From one side to the

other (6)

14. Furtive (6)

15. Failed to catch (6) 17. Sailing boat (6)

18. Aquatic mammal (4) 19. Compressed (8)

21. Upset (10)

22. Auction (4)

Down

2. 3. 4. 5. Actual Keen Compels Tropical (4) doing tree (6) (6) (2,8)

6. Composer songs (8) of sacred

7. Chamber (4)

11. Honest, informally (2,3,5)

13. Not current (8)

16. Disperse (6)

17. Part of a meal (6)

18. Flank (4)

20. Soap bubbles (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Knock back a small drink in Italy (4)

8. A bow is taken for this one-man performance (6,4) 9. Does he make staging? (8) 10. Weaving machine may appear menacing (4) 12. A thing to bear from one side to the other (6) 14. Furtive when moving around? (6) 15. Escaped being addressed as spinster? (6) 17. Sharp-edged boat? (6) 18. Marine animal shut tight (4) 19. Amongst a group of men she is reduced to silence (8) 21. Emphasised more than 500 suffering anxiety (10)

22. There should be lots to buy here (4)

Down

2. Actually professional perhaps (2,8) done training, after

3. Help greedy about (4) five to be

4. 5. Constrains Is curt about troops kind (6) of fruit tree (6)

6. E.g. David saw head included by hand-reader (8)

7. Space in the chamber (4)

11. Honest but flat (2,3,5)

13. Bet loose change is in longer used (8)

16. Somehow lisped 'Drive away' (6)

17. Natural development from Crusoe (6)

18. Team finds newspaper boss is up (4) 20. Do they help keep things clean in a soap opera? (4)