CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Security (6)

4. Zoo employee (6)

9. Farmer (13)

10. Parts of a meal (7)

11. Bury (5)

12. Horse's cry (5)

14. Jules ---, French writer (5) 18. Representative of the

king (5) 19. Item of climbing

equipment (7)

21. Belittling of oneself (4-9)

22. Rotated (6)

23. Elapsed (6) Down

1. Grab (6)

2. Palmist, e.g. (7-6)

3. Small nails (5)

5. Difficult to catch (7) 6. Machine used to produce

textual material (8,5)

7. Sharp reply (6)

8. Nearby (5)

13. Explosive device (7)

15. Drinking toast (6)

16. Fragment (5)

17. Joined (6)

20. Stadium (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1. The sort of valve to take

the pressure off (6) 4. He retains an employee

at the zoo (6) 9. An expert in his own

field (13) 10. Series of lectures produced by culinary experts (7) 11. To put somebody in a

grave situation (5) 12. Sounds like no animal

noise (5)

14. Jules never changes (5) 18. Steward ever so upset by the end of the voyage (5) 19. Climbing device to

fasten tightly on (7) 21. Fast enables me to get involved in personal mortification (4-9) 22. Made things go

round (6) 23. Didn't make a bid in

spades, maybe (6)

Down 1. Seize a bit of air (6)

2. He predicts the bank clerk will be after a large sum of money (7-6) 3. Temporarily secures a

levy, we hear (5)

5. Use vile arrangement –

that's dodgy (7)

6. Many different types will be employed in operating this (8,5) 7. Smart answer about something wrong in law (6)

8. Forbid access to the

cathedral precinct (5) 13. Amended range of

French missile (7)

15. Port is used for a

toast (6)

16. It's no longer used for a

fight (5)

17. Made into one tune I'd

transposed (6)

20. An exceptionally long time coming back for the ring (5)