CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Insolvent (8) 5. Let it stand (4) 9. Spacious (4) 10. Explosive (8) 11. Legally prevent (5) 12. Last (4,3) 13. Non-energetic existence (9,4) 18. Italian (8) 19. Tree trunk (4) 20. Shop (7) 21. Alliance (5) 22. Waistband (4) 23. Infinity (8)

Down

2. Under discussion (2,5) 3. Lock aperture (7) 4. Mind specialist (13) 6. Libyan capital (7) 7. Table framework (7) 8. Intercept (6) 13. Attacks (7) 14. Wild dogs (7) 15. Situated below (6) 16. Asian republic (7) 17. Quarrel (4,3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Suffering from a complete lack of balance (8) 5. Unchanging instruction written in haste to printers (4) 9. Offhand and breezy (4) 10. Many diet, perhaps, but this could blow them out! (8) 11. Legally prevent poets being translated (5) 12. Offer resistance? (4,3) 13. What a chairperson leads? (9,4) 18. Blind citizen? (8) 19. A wooden trunk (4) 20. It may supply you, provisionally at least (7) 21. Hands joined together (5) 22. Shilling deposit for a scarf (4) 23. There's no end to it (8)

Down

2. A fabric in dispute (2,5) 3. An opening for an opener (7) 4. A breakdown specialist (13) 6. Stumble on crude oil in North Africa (7) 7. Fresh letters of support? (7) 8. Ambush a lay-about in the street (6) 13. Attacks brutes? (7) 14. Half the dinner goes for wild dogs (7) 15. Low-down advice to a mermaid-catcher? (6) 16. The French prohibition on a M. East republic (7) 17. Don't agree it could be dangerous (4,3)