Two-in-One Cryptic and Definition
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 I’m conclusively shown to be made better (8)
5 Did what the primate did (4) 9 Broadcast about northern wintry weather (4)
10 Off you go! You’ll get a cuff round the ear! (5,3) 11 A drink going round a second time (5)
12 It’s gear, maybe, assumed by the bishop (7)
13 Showed military courtesy and gave gifts to the needy, we hear (9,4)
18 Sleeping - or losing
one’s grip? (8)
19 Hypocrisy is a deviation from an upright position (4)
20 Determination required to do the puzzle again (7)
21 Ring used for games leave nothing in the middle (5)
22 Describing an arm or a
number of feet (4)
23 Opening up and making
the game move (8) DOWN 2 Game ran all wrong for the man in charge (7) 3 They brawl - but the noise fades away (7) 4 What those in the Dark Ages failed to acquire (13)
6 One will get all-round support as a pathfinder (7) 7 Violently dislikes steeds out of control round the end of the street (7)
8 Not always the same note after G in Verdi transcription (6)
13 Show the counterpart of the starboard beam (7)
14 One who reveals secrets of retired artists’ model (7)
15 Hardly the opposite of
this! (6)
16 Bill making a census,
we hear (7)
17 In the statement I only make an allusion (7)
SIMPLE CLUES
ACROSS 1 Combat (8)
5 Solitary (4)
9 Prophet (4)
10 Episode (8)
11 Swift (5)
12 Charm (7)
13 Evolutionary (13) 18 Drinking bout (8) 19 Rip (4)
20 Boiled meat (7) 21 Dizzy (5)
22 Ogle (4)
23 Poor (8) DOWN 2 Daunt (7)
3 Fruitful (7)
4 Thought (13)
6 Expand (4,3)
7 Hold spellbound (7) 8 Corsair (6)
13 Unit of sound (7)
14 Green growth (7) 15 Noisily (6)
16 Zero (7)
17 Desert (7)