Two-in-One Cryptic and Definition

No 3,965

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 To succeed in getting round public relations officer will cause censure (8) 5 The pace of the first episode (4)

9 & 10Ac. Capital billets for operational base (12) 10 See 9 Across 11 A noise near an attractive tree (5) 12 Croaker Junior! (7) 13 Showing signs of having been stormily attacked (7-6) 18 Could it be illumination in a Roman Catholic church? (3-5)

19 & 6Dn. Fail to take an opportunity - that’s what defaulting sailors do (4,3,4) 20 One of the coaches for the race in trouble (7) 21 Joint made from southern wood (5) 22 A hundred in established denomination (4) 23 Excluded, having been freed from prison? (8)

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2 Unpleasant thing I spotted by its sound (7) 3 Make a new plan of revolutionary kind of water transport (7) 4 One who figures the cost of a retaliatory attack (13) 6 See 19 Across 7 Advertisement on northern gate (7) 8 From which the captain controls the game (6) 13 This war will upset the spirits (7) 14 One variety of chair in a hundred is antique (7) 15 Distance from the base (6) 16 This will indicate what power is available (7) 17 Put in bonds (7)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

1 Trachea (8) 5 Increase (4) 9 Gaming counter (4) 10 Almanac (8) 11 Drive (5) 12 Miser (7) 13 Cleverly (13) 18 Afflicted (8) 19 Require (4) 20 Greed (7) 21 Err (5) 22 Air (4) 23 Prank (8)

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2 Brutal (7) 3 Exhaust (7) 4 Mournfulness (13) 6 Shining (7) 7 Temporal (7) 8 Alliance (6) 13 Immediate (7) 14 Ground (7) 15 Of milk (6) 16 Uninterrupted (7) 17 On the sheltered side (7)