Two-In-One

No 5,100

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

4 Colour that’s unusually clear in the street (7) 8 A meal, we hear, is set out in the garden (6)

9 Mr Yates will show

skilful control (7)

10 No longer a dock area to dispatch freight (6)

11 Some led a Spartan

way of life (6)

12 Say nothing? Just

the opposite (8)

18 More cuts for one

in store (8)

20 Potato the seaman put back in pastry dish (6)

21 Concentrated on producing a translation of Sterne (6) 22 Presumably not the way in for this sort of game (7) 23 Mother isn’t disturbed by this insect (6)

24 Diversions by a great many different routes (7)

DOWN

1 The crime of the dishonest handler (7) 2 Firm section of the regiment (7) 3 Qualification that shows a certain amount of latitude (6) 5 They hold a great deal of food for horses (8)

6 Worthless type producing shocking retort (6) 7 I have found eleven had a word for it! (6)

13 One who regularly attends plenty of courses (8)

14 Pardon me being involved in nasty mix-up (7)

15 Object potter’s

miscast (7)

16 It’s shot for food and this produces a complaint (6) 17 Media base for the boss over 10! (6)

19 Stuff that will make the pitch brown (6)

SIMPLE CLUES

ACROSS

4 Bottomless (7)

8 Adrift (6)

9 Stir (7)

10 Frolic (6)

11 Handy (6)

12 Reticent (8)

18 Unnecessary (8)

20 Dirty (6)

21 Forgive (6)

22 Supercilious (7)

23 Save (6)

24 Mid (7)

DOWN

1 Gaunt (7) 2 Scar (7) 3 Prefer (6) 5 Envy (8) 6 Sofa (6) 7 Cunning (6) 13 Blood-feud (8) 14 Judgement (7) 15 Apart (7) 16 Spirit (6) 17 Predicament (6) 19 Benumb (6)