Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Masculine (4) 3 Mix (8)

8 Storm (4)

9 Ailment (8) 11 Go-between (12) 13 Attic (6)

14 Writer (6) 17 Teacher (12) 20 Revered (8) 21 Harvest (4)

22 Led (8)

23 Spot of soot (4)

Down

1 Wedding (8) 2 Barge (7) 4 Supposed (6) 5 Countrified (10) 6 Beneath (5) 7 Challenge (4) 10 Uncertain (10) 12 Effete (8) 15 Meantime (7) 16 Maintain (6) 18 Light boat (5) 19 Lash (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Get down - from this perhaps! (4)

3 No danger signal (3,5) 8 Vessel for refuse (4) 9 Badly violated a joint (8)

11 It's bound to appeal to the less affluent (5,7) 13 Win, possibly earned (6)

14 One who minds is easily hurt (6)

17 Far better than other door-to-door salesmen? (7,5)

20 Net value in its final form (8) 21 Forget I'm about to

reverse (4)

22 Each person in it has some very onerous duties (8)

23 Nothing to the German, though it's his border (4)

Down

1 A number expelled are downcast (8)

2 Make an effort to study with care (7) 4 They're known for insurance, in the main (6)

5 Keep arguing - like Mrs Sprat did! (4,3,3) 6 Time to finish is what poets may need (5) 7 Depend on entirely? Not half! (4)

10 It seems a family man appears in a strange play (10)

12 Wrong director still has to be paid (8) 15 Imagined me in terror (7)

16 Filter the air (6)

18 About the first in that place (5)

19 Piece of ice destined to give way (4)