Irish Independent

Two-In-One

No 4,519

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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7 They employ queer ruses (5) 8 Study the actual words and whatever goes with them (7) 9 Choice meat for the champions (7) 10 A certain amount of price deduction is granted (5)

12 Share out is tried but as an alternativ­e (10) 15 No new means of measuring time? (6,4)

18 Fanciful idea that comes to those who have retired (5) 19 Well-known to be helpless? (7) 21 For punishment the writer gets the cane somehow (7)

22 Disputes produced by stiff adjustment (5)

DOWN 1 Supported, neverthele­ss, with locks (10) 2 Looks for signs that chicks have hatched (5) 3 Wine that sparkles as it rises (4)

4 One won’t say no to this (6) 5 Idleness in battle (8)

6 End fuel blending, that’s necessary (7)

11 It should prevent someone getting into bad habits (5,5)

13 Shame! (8)

14 Shows or hides (7) 16 Watch someone chasing animals? (6)

17 Sailor a short distance nearer the stern (5)

20 Of course it’s a

better device (4)

SIMPLE CLUES

ACROSS

7 Trunk (5)

8 Celebrated (7) 9 Antique (7)

10 Fling (5)

12 Pouring (10) 15 Enlarged in

discourse (10) 18 Drag (5)

19 Refuge (7)

21 Sideboard (7) 22 Blemish (5) DOWN

1 Bond of affection (10) 2 Artifice (5)

3 Manage (4)

4 Adviser (6)

5 Remoteness (8)

6 Desist (7)

11 Fount (10)

13 Excel (8)

14 Clothing (7)

16 Irrational (6)

17 Wander (5)

20 Otherwise (4)

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