Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1. Accomplice (11) 9. Religious traveller (7)

10. Suborn (5)

11. Supple (5)

12. Italian dish (7)

13. An incumbent (6)

15. Strain (6)

18. Excursionist (7)

20. Talent (5)

22. Scent (5)

23. Graceful (7)

24. Vitally (11)

DOWN

2. Young owl (5)

3. Lose (7)

4. Modest (6)

5. Picture puzzle (5)

6. Scottish emblem (7)

7. Request (11)

8. Show (11)

14. Pernicious (7)

16. Fabric (7)

17. Pressing (6)

19. Money-bag (5)

21. Benefit (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1. Being indisposed in the holiday leads to uncertainty of action (11)

9. Walk that follows a single dance (3-4)

10. Some of the college lecturers due to take up office (5)

11 & 15Ac. They remove the ground from beneath assistant colliers (11)

12. Not a place in the market where beef is sold (2-5)

13. Throat infection - you’ll get the bird (6)

15. See 11 Across

18. Being unable to settle down makes a small number crazy, I see (7)

20. This girl has opposite directions about America (5)

22. Makes an approach to northern listeners (5)

23. Stage-door, maybe, for singers in variety (7)

24. But they don’t necessarily contain funeral cards (4-7) DOWN 2. What a principal has managed to get! (5) 3. Restricts people’s movements in revolutions, we hear (7)

4. Could it be a greyhound going round the track? (3-3)

5. Overhead lock (5) 6. Do some cutting in the theatre (7)

7. In practice he’s a standin (5-6)

8. No outmoded state (11) 14. Thoroughly search for strong drink before the game is ruined (7) 16. Practical knowledge in particular location, one hears (7)

17. He wrote a schoolboy translation in the southeast (6)

19. Given a course in physics (5)

21. This will pierce some of the oyster’s pearls (5)