Two-In-One

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Uninteresting accommodation? (4)

8 The result of striking another match (10) 9 Produced a score without being flustered (8)

10 Does some shooting - arrest on return (4)

12 Noblemen put nothing in storehouses (6)

14 Almost the last conveyance for a foreign seaman (6) 15 Forceful company

fellow (6)

17 Unusual German receptacle for fodder (6) 18 Some of the brandy essence changes colour (4) 19 A red lime could be beneficial to health (8)

21 One in charge of splendid load on the ship? (10)

22 & 7Dn. Work longer hours, being far from placid (8)

DOWN

2 Where experiments are made with Labour speech-making (10)

3 & 20Dn. Presumably there’ll be a catch to this opening! (4,4) 4 Diverts us in the same arrangement (6) 5 A restraint, we hear, concerning the nuptials (6) 6 Stop being paid up before a lad (8) 7 See 22 Across 11 Commerce notes manufacturers’ labels (10)

13 Foreman

prophet? (8)

16 Car reversed in the Greek region (6)

17 More disturbed in

my recollection (6) 18 The record is held in District Columbia (4)

20 See 3 Down

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

1 Slight quarrel (4) 8 Unrelenting (10) 9 Of the home (8) 10 Pile (4) 12 Indifference (6) 14 Cowardly (6) 15 Lapwing (6) 17 Parched (6) 18 Minus (4) 19 Ultimate (8) 21 Law-maker (10) 22 Pitcher (4)

DOWN

2 Imperfect (10) 3 Penalty (4) 4 Sentinel (6) 5 Irritable (6) 6 Single man (8) 7 Profound (4) 11 Hateful (10) 13 Municipality (8) 16 Threefold (6) 17 Agreement (6) 18 Calm (4) 20 Weary (4)

YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION

Across: 7 Order; 8 Hitches; 9 Tractor; 10 Reins; 12 Ice-breaker; 15 Second-hand 18 Still; 19 Needled; 21 Resides; 22 Alarm.

Down: 1 Fortresses; 2 Ideal; 3 Fret; 4 Cherub; 5 Sturgeon; 6 Shrieks; 11 Struck dumb; 13 Conclude; 14 Eclipse 16 Honest; 17 Pleas; 20 Elan.

YESTERDAY’S SIMPLE SOLUTION

Across: 7 Lance; 8 Settler; 9 Incisor; 10 Acted; 12 Outrageous; 15 Atmosphere; 18 Exile; 19 Notable; 21 Squalor; 22 Exult.

Down: 1 Illiterate; 2 Snack; 3 Mess; 4 Usurer; 5 Stranger; 6 Elation; 11 Dishonesty; 13 Unseemly; 14 Impious; 16 Hungry; 17 About; 20 Teem.