Irish Independent

Two-In-One

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Keep mum after chartered accountant produces the money (4) 3 Make a joint plan to study part of the church (8) 9 The main course? (3-4) 10 Showed partiality for a little work by Edward (5) 11 Putting up some resistance to what the easel manufactur­er is doing (6,1,5) 13 He painted “The Workman at the Lathe” (6) 15 Doctor, one who employs a useful cat (6) 17 Could they be young ladies employed by the market gardener? (7-5) 20 Being an employer will make you singlemind­ed, in part (5) 21 What the retired person gets for a boarding-house (7) 22 The rate is modified by certain wealth (8) 23 In this way the horseplay upsets schoolmast­ers, initially (4)

DOWN

1 A piece of luggage, my friend, for fortified garrison (8) 2 The end of the coal in the bag! (5) 4 Endless discipline by a learner is a trying experience (6) 5 Scant fare for diminutive ordinary people (5,7) 6 Aims to show the position of Boy Scouts? (7)

7 The whirl produced from a reconditio­ned dynamo (4) 8 Endorses notices put up by the shopkeeper? (12) 12 Puts on shows – they’re associated with Christmas (8) 14 The way around in the regular course of action (7) 16 A tradesman with material possession­s (6) 18 Sir, I showed the Hibernians inside (5)

19 It’s hardly fair! (4)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

1 Every (4) 3 Astronaut (8) 9 Extremitie­s (7) 10 Of necessity (5) 11 Murderous (12) 13 Inter (6) 15 Disregard (6) 17 Jests (12) 20 Military hat (5) 21 Include (7) 22 Prevail (8) 23 Precede (4)

DOWN

1 Food (8) 2 Freight (5) 4 Predicamen­t (6) 5 Gathering (12) 6 Eminent musician (7) 7 Bird’s home (4) 8 Offence (12) 12 Spiced (8) 14 Cultivatio­n (7) 16 Annul (6) 18 Angry (5) 19 Norwegian capital (4)

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