CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

Celestial illumination (9) 9. 1. 8. Appropriate Dismantling (3) (6,5) 11. Accumulates (7) 12. Bisect (5) 13. Embrace (6) 15. At once (6) 17. Different (5) 18. Outline (7) 20. Projects (11) 22. Fuel (3) 23. Corrected (9)

Down

2. Beverage (3) 3. Rows (5) 4. Smooth (6) 5. Tutor (7) 6. Livestock exhibitions (6-5) 7. Actors' entrance (5-4) 10. Roguery (11) 11. Dock (9) 14. Museum head (7) 16. Won points (6) 19. Tend (5) 21. Before (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Does this pick out the leading actor? (9) 8. Suitable piece of claptrap (3) 9. Accepting a stage role, but breaking up (6,5) 11. Collects before midday a number of baggage animals (7) 12. Draw a hole (5) 13. Come to close quarters to conclude a bargain (6) 15. Quick instruction to the player (6) 17. Not the same member of the family losing her head (5) 18 & 3Dn. Signs of relief that may extend across a whole area (7,5) 20. Come in with the awards, we hear, for hazardous undertakings (11) 22. Light kind of mantle (3) 23. Compensated by being given a fresh bandage? (9)

Down

2. Kind of cup on show in an elaborate arena (3) 3. See 18 Across 4. One doesn't need to be bespectacled to produce such a stare (6) 5. One who has an influence on the race! (7) 6. Ostentatious stock markets? (6-5) 7. Humble acts find an opening here – so do great turns! (5-4) 10. The disposition of a tartstealer! (11) 11. Place to moor in Alaska (9) 14. A court is affected by the right warden (7) 16. Arranged the music and achieved a success (6) 19. Her sister is a superior person (5) 21. Before the melody one hears (3)