CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

4. Purchasable (3,4) 8. Bordered (6) 9. Leakage (7) 10. Song (6) 11. Loitering (6) 12. Legible (8) 18. Countrywide (8) 20. Satisfy (6) 21. Damages (6) 22. Father of Odysseus (7) 23. Agree (6) 24. Promptly (7)

Down

1. Matters (7) 2. Biased (7) 3. Swiss city (6) 5. Compliant (8) 6. Provide (6) 7. Story (6) 13. Fertiliser (4,4) 14. Provokes (7) 15. Reddened (7) 16. Split (6) 17. Excluded (6) 19. Collision (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

4. Part of the rigging, we hear, put in the market (3,4) 8. Edged all round and made the victim of a plot (6) 9. Refer to a certain part of the book for what has been leaked (7) 10. See 18 Across 11. Having nothing to do, I'd fish (6) 12. Literally, what any script should be (8) 18 & 10Ac. Country air (8,6) 20. Answers to charges, we hear, give satisfaction (6) 21. Plunder deteriorates (6) 22. Established genuine backing for Shakespearian character (7) 23. A hundred surrender and show willingness to make an agreement (6) 24. How people who are prepared are idly disposed (7)

Down

1. Transactions associated with philanderers (7) 2. Showing a preference for what is not complete (7) 3. Avenge the destruction of Swiss location (6) 5. Debit one for taking orders (8) 6. Provide the goods with agility (6) 7. A member to finish the story (6) 13. Fertiliser made from ground skeletons (4,4) 14. Moves to action in spectacles, by the sound of it (7) 15. Showed signs of modesty, being comfortable in bed! (7) 16. Separate or keep together (6) 17. The poet reportedly ostracised (6) 19. As the result of a clash, I'm wanting a treaty (6)