CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 What gearless arrangement will make a barometer? (7-5)

7 She is unbalanced before morning (5) 8 One willing to provide the wherewithal for a cattle-shed, we hear (5)

9 Good doctors don’t prescribe such treatment (3)

10 Mere stars will show decorations (9) 11 A report will accompany his discharge (6)

12 It moves to and fro to

change the points (6) 15 Land-users readjust

the washer (9)

17 Friend doesn’t finish

floor covering (3)

18 This will stick in the

back (5)

19 Ask for supplies to be sent for a number of monks (5)

21 What the judge who announces the length of the sentence does! (5,3,4) DOWN 1 Diligent form in which artisans are found (7-5)

2 Didn’t expose threequarters of the skin (3) 3 Make an observation about what the schoolboy earns (6) 4 Book-keeping establishments (9) 5 Half stir dye about in characteristic manner (5)

6 Now is the time to use this (7,5)

7 Part of a caramel one may be used as a first course (5)

10 Make haste before spring to find a blue flower (9)

13 The circus performer

is not so wild (5)

14 Scientific apparatus that’s the snappy answer (6)

16 Make one up in the

retinue (5)

20 Suitable charge (3)