Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1. Spineless (12)

7. Power (5)

8. To doubt (5)

9. Mine (3)

10. Building designer (9)

11. Deny (6)

12. Acrid (6)

15. Serviceable (9)

17. Fuss (3)

18. Porcelain (5)

19. Fold (5)

21. Clearly (12)

DOWN

1. Callowness (12)

2. Small carpet (3)

3. Tempt (6)

4. Necessary (9)

5. In that place (5)

6. Incomprehensibly (12)

7. Subject (5)

10. Partner (9)

13. Region (5)

14. Banish (6)

16. Pretend (5)

20. Ovum (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1. Classical fraction of Paris! (5,7)

7. Additional payment is good in France and America (5)

8. In the fair I shall find a kind of terrier (5)

9. Crude conflict coming back (3)

10 & 10Dn. Wits indulging in irritable conversation? (5-4,9)

11. Where you’ll find the ladies could make me rash! (6)

12. Hand down to posterity and die (4,2)

15. Put food at the end of the meadow for a kind of thrush (9)

17. Be quiet at the back of a tree (3)

18. A gadabout, one hears, produces a scent (5) 19. Open and postmark the stamp (5)

21. Could they be hold-ups in play caused by the referee? (7-5)

DOWN

1. Cause the standard to fall (5,3,4)

2. A woman in isolation, undoubtedly (3)

3. The result of firing in the air? (6)

4. Put back in office to control the country (9) 5. Heather is number one in the medley race (5) 6. The trembling palms giving greeting (7,5) 7. Garden recess for one acknowledging the applause? (5)

10. See 10 Across

13. To do this, stretch across the end of the desk! (5)

14. Brave description of the complete male? (6) 16. Hope is raised about a century - that’s a long time (5)

20. Girl is deprived of capital by the blockhead (3)