Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES Across

7 Diverse (13) 8 Identify (8) 9 Afterwards (4) 10 Obvious (6) 12 Diatribe (6)

14 Spirit (6)

16 Indeed (6) 18 Applaud (4) 20 Guardianship (8) 22 Thoughtless (13)

Down

1 Frail (8) 2 Association (6) 3 Unaccompanied (4)

4 Renegade (8) 5 Joker (6)

6 Unsullied (4) 11 Dissertation (8) 13 Representative (8) 15 First-class (3-3) 17 Entice (6)

19 Solitary (4)

21 Neat (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

7 Fail to understand and so annihilate (4,7,2)

8 Study poetry or the opposite (8)

9 Thought I had a weary, not awry, second half (4)

10 Money for release of Romans (6) 12 Something for the writer to dip into (3-3) 14 Monkey proves a benefit to graduate (6) 16 Avoids committing oneself to growing boundaries (6) 18 Separate role (4)

20 Get rid of horses that aren't steady? (8) 22 Making firm comfort I should have around (13)

Down

1 Wide view alternatively held in canal country (8) 2 Abandons what some plants shed (6)

3 North African will tie up the boat (4)

4 Like a lamb later in life ? (8)

5 Reverse one's selection? (6)

6 The only fish (4)

11 Boldly take on a complete crew (8) 13 Be too much a spectator and so far fail to notice? (8)

15 Not set for being tried out (2,4)

17 Scarcity of thread (6) 19 Minute particle to be seen in the morning

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21 How the team was affected? (4)