CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across 1. Space traveller (9) 8. And not (3) 9. Releasing (11) 11. Represent (7) 12. Instrument (5) 13. Shouts of approval (6) 15. Respiratory disorder (6) 17. Exchanges of goods (5) 18. Move forward (7) 20. Meal parts (4,7) 22. Sprite (3) 23. Vehicle (6,3)

Down 2. Travel over snow (3) 3. Additional (5) 4. Displays (6) 5. Robbers (7) 6. In safe keeping (2,4,5) 7. Breed (9) 10. Thoroughfare illuminations (11) 11. Stops doing something (5,2,2) 14. Pause (7) 16. Surgical knife (6) 19. Boast (5) 21. Epoch (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1. Someone with space to move in (9) 8. This way for the fjords! (3) 9. Unloading sacking (11) 11. Describe wine and fish (7) 12. Old instrument comes before a modern one (5) 13. Three will show approval (6) 15. Complaint about Ma's hat (6) 17. They are sure to be brisk for beer on board (5) 18. Go-ahead pawnbrokers may give you one (7) 20. But they're not necessarily seafood! (4,7) 22.The little devil's simply without cunning (3) 23. Property conveyance? (6,3)

Down 2. Runner in various kinds of winter sports (3) 3. To come up before her is not the same (5) 4. Sets out an increase in salary, we hear (6) 5. Police would like to arrest a woman in this (7) 6. It's safe to say where the card players' success lies (2,4,5) 7. Increase the strain (9) 10. Standard features of many streets (11) 11. Crams the stuff together and finishes (5,2,2) 14. Pause as the priest turns the key (7) 16. It gives point to work in the theatre (6) 19. Boast in a letter to a relation (5) 21. Time to end the opera (3)