quick crossword
ACROSS
1 Verrucas (5)
4 Two score (5)
8 Poem (3)
9 Performer (11)
10 Beat hollow (7)
12 Japanese dish (5)
13 Fragile; weak (6)
14 Holy (6)
17 Fool; half-wit (5)
19 Secondary school (7)
21 Rough; inexact (11)
23 Decay (3)
24 Mistake (5)
25 Terminated (5)
DOWN
1 Grain crop (5)
2 Rodent (3)
3 Jumps; metal coils (7)
4 Dreaded (6)
5 Leases (5)
6 Northern county (9)
7 Accept (7)
11 Begin (9)
13 Collapse; disaster (7)
15 Dream up (7)
16 Prefer (6)
18 Diminish gradually (5)
20 Give way (5)
22 Succour (3)
cryptic crossword ACROSS
1 Attribute correct sources of
tax yearly (8)
5 A club oddly needing workers
to show discernment (6)
9 Striker’s night playing in
topless affair (9)
11 Selects actors seeing son
featured in musical (5)
12 Watch nurse have a go (6)
13 Applause upset many a DIYer (8)
15 Planned limited rides across area that’s free of armed forces (13)
18 Out of form? (7,6)
22 Work possibly available in the
long run? (8)
23 Fever seeing capital changing
sides? (6)
26 City shelter dropouts left
empty (5)
27 Servant rumoured to be after money is immediately available (5-4)
28 Moderate, generally after
start of summer (6)
29 Violent offence at football
reported in game (8)
DOWN
1 Friend with strange ideas for
defensive structure (8)
2 Up in London, a growing
newspaper, for example (5)
3 Doctor learnt about hospital
transport (7)
4 Dog brush (4)
6 Agents employing scoundrel
needing small bugs (7)
7 Public communications
service aimed for reform (4,5)
8 Moving slowly, issue raised at
home beginning to grate (6)
10 Jokes about boy and right
things to wear for best (4,4)
14 Be angry over brief effort to
get garden tool (8)
16 Plan page about the French
national symbol (5,4)
17 Heavenly ale brewed around
the outskirts of Rome (8)
19 Entertainer’s energy
supporting painter (7)
20 Broadcast shown again
without pressure (7)
21 Bags of nameless pasta (6)
24 Piece in America about a love
for fertiliser (5)
25 Duty one has to provide
transport (4)