Crossword 1

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. For a Conservative to wear running gear isn’t novel (5,5) 7. Angry, that is about deserter (5)

8. Enough rope for the artist? (7)

10. Wild beast follows party to nerve centre (8)

11. Paid professionally to eat? (4) 13. Strong woman of the river (6) 15. Liquor found by abstainer hidden in tree trunk (6)

17. System of weights in King Priam’s city (4)

18. Take round when the performance has finished (4,4)

21. Another attempt at courting? (7)

22. A claw in the front, a long one, too (5)

23. Why the side can’t be said not to stand a ghost of a chance? (4,6)

Down

1. Watering place in the country (5)

2. Miss finished appearance (8) 3. Go stealthily in great excitement (6)

4. Precursor of a fall on an outing (4)

5. Give medical attention again in an asylum, perhaps (7) 6. Circus man has to telephone teacher (10)

9. Did she get a ruby when she got engaged to put others off the hunt? (3,7)

12. Throw tea about causing trouble (3,5)

14. Disciple given a job by the French (7)

16. A sound stimulus from 14 (6) 19. In the interval, etiquette demands the man-servant appears (5)

20. The pictures may be a development of it (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Disconnected (10) 7. Rule (5) 8. Worshipped (7) 10. Raze (8)

11. File (4)

13. Gluttonous (6) 15. Soup dish (6) 17. Spoken (4)

18. Conversation (8) 21. A cheese (7) 22. Misanthrope (5) 23. Persistence (10)

Down

1. Dialect (5) 2. Finish (8) 3. Annoy (6) 4. Wander (4) 5. Relate (7) 6. Amazing (10) 9. Reliance (10) 12. Landlord (8) 14. Joy (7)

16. Songbird (6) 19. A spirit (5) 20. Needle case (4)