Crossword 2

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

4. Make dramatic mistake in assessing character (7)

8. Discharge an account and leave (6)

9. A loud moral tale will make you obligingly friendly (7)

10. Posted like a soldier of old (6) 11. No well-directed shots are discharged at this (6)

12. Particular time comes to hand for the fruit producer (4,4)

18. Hawker? (8)

20. A port in vulgar parlance is a shady place (6)

21. I must be in position for what comes from the sea (6)

22. This cover has a pothole in it (3,4)

23. To finish with I have salad food (6)

24. What is smoked by the great man in bed! (7)

Down

1. Produced by male and female, one hears! (3-4)

2. Looks askance (7)

3. Those who do this make a row (6)

5. Describing a free and easy way to teach a learner (8)

6. Charles is seen around in fetters (6)

7. Bar a popular kind of transport (6)

13. Different flares required by the company out of doors (8) 14. Lacking flavour in the small drink I had (7)

15. It’s not long before the editor is given a summary (7)

16. Sounds like an opening for partofagun(6)

17. Agree to put a hundred on the dog (6)

19. No unsettled area (6)

QUICK CLUES

Across

4. Backbiting (7) 8. Lifted (6) 9. Betrothed (7) 10. Illness (6)

11. Enrol (6)

12. Indiscreet (8) 18. Example (8) 20. Stay (6)

21. Mistakes (6) 22. Satisfied (7) 23. Proverb (6) 24. Commanded (7) Down 1. Archbishop (7) 2.Mound(7)

3. In servitude (6) 5. Competitions (8) 6. Almost (6) 7. Reluctant (6) 13. Distinction (8) 14. Occupy (7)

15. Disorder (7) 16. Diversion (6) 17. Cows (6)

19. Menace (6)