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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 They follow, one falls but the other breaks (5,3,3) 9 Cereal provided in every eatinghous­e (3) 10 Got well and rich! (6,3) 11 Youngsters’ pistols (5) 13 Loud approval and quiet praise with it (7) 14 Stir up with some barbarous excesses (6) 16 Part of the Balkans where rabies is unusual (6) 18 Late but not unwilling (7) 19 They join others to eat (5) 20 I salt it by as an essential of security (9) 21 Where a traveller may get a meal some dinner perhaps? (3) 22 Say what you will, the orator won’t be paid if he does! (5,6) DOWN 2 One hundred that is about to freeze (3) 3 You’ll find them entertaini­ng (5) 4 Unexpected form of pub art (6) 5 Get cleared in order to follow the Customs officer’s advice (7) 6 A bad olive perhaps needn’t be selected (9) 7 Possibly it’s clear-cut as a decisive trial (7,4) 8 Hard cash is needed if it is to deliver the goods (4,7) 12 Be quick to appear intelligen­t (4,5) 15 It’s a man in distress, and what could keep him going (7) 17 An outstandin­g decoration (6) 19 Shrub belonging to you in the past, then me (5) 21 I will shortly look sick (3)

SIMPLE CLUES

ACROSS 1 Thoughtful (11) 9 Join (3) 10 Crush (9) 11 Laud (5) 13 Musically poetical (7) 14 To seesaw (6) 16 Respect (6) 18 More savoury (7) 19 Artificial silk (5) 20 Artifice (9) 21 Wonder (3) 22 Showing off (11) DOWN 2 Strange (3) 3 Mar (5) 4 Resides (6) 5 Recompense­s (7) 6 Betrayal (9) 7 Reproved (5,2,4) 8 Petty (5-6) 12 Values highly (9) 15 Letter (7) 17 Shining (6) 19 Send back (5) 21 Fuss (3)

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