Crossword 1

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Heath glided erratically and was dizzy (5-6)

9. Be in poor health - drink needed, we hear (3)

10. The game is of trifling significance (9)

11. React to a sign that something needs including (5)

13. Intrinsic quality of Eastern transformation scenes (7)

14. Seafood will provide physical strength, by the sound of it (6)

16. No rise for one of more advanced years (6)

18. Captain’s lost his head - through smoking these? (7) 19. Public surplus before the end of the Budget (5)

20. What’s the shopkeeper doing? Passing on the gossip (9) 21. Show disapproval of most of the novel (3)

22. The essential attribute of the

Beatitudes (11)

Down

2. Epithet for the beginnings of infirmity, lowness, lassitude (3) 3. Sailor in theatrical success - that’s just routine (5)

4. More expensive to take a lease, we hear (6)

5. A performer in the part is temperamental (7)

6. Trailing plant I entangle all over the place (9)

7. They provide you with time to observe manufacturers (11) 8. What boring people hope to achieve (11)

12. Translation of prose tale could make a bit of a bloomer (4,5)

15. One can see when they’re open (7)

17. Show some ambition to reform Persia (6)

19. A publication that could well be stopped! (5)

21. Public transport is almost bankrupt! (3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Every other week (11) 9. Cover (3)

10. Blowing up (9)

11. Overturn (5)

13. Be conducive (7) 14. Maltreat (3-3)

16. Stick (6)

18. Press release (7) 19. Appointment (5) 20. Beginners (9)

21. Pale (3)

22. Forerunner (11) Down 2. Uneven (3) 3. Sully (5)

4. Frail (6)

5. Set by (7) 6. Unhurried (9) 7. Prosperous (11) 8. Accidental (11) 12. Brilliance (9) 15. Allayed (7) 17. Stationary (6) 19. Trials (5) 21. Court (3)