CRYPTIC CLUES
Two sets of clues but the answers are the same
ACROSS
1 Nothing out of school, and a
right clever man (7)
5 Instrument is nothing more
than a unit of living matter (5) 8 Literary circle de rigueur on
Durer’s part (7)
9 Relation is endlessly unclear
(5)
10 Is inept but, with change of
rent, to the point (9)
12 Final instalments of land you purchase ought now to be paid (3)
13 Use foil to handle goods that
are hot (5)
17 Remove top of basin to reveal
the bird (3)
19 For shortening of sentence in Morse, is necessary to change it (9)
21 A number act on Buddhism in
Japan (5)
22 Sound of laughter is about right for the sound of wood burning (7)
24 Creep behind height of
barrier (5)
25 Too much fruit’s produced
around end of June (7)
DOWN
The trouble capers can get us into (6)
Five score a century (7) People urged to protect money of Romania (3)
Old magistrate who had ruff for a mate (5) Innumerable uncles to turn south (9)
Easily understood how I’d started with endless good fortune (5)
A corkscrew the first batsman might use (6)
11 It lets one suppose it could 2 3
be nice and free around the North (9)
Behave like a star, sporting new kilt (7)
In what way had it turned up on an elephant’s back? (6) Turn over vine destroyed by heartless rot (6)
Didn’t start having glass put in, so took it easy (5) Makes fun of changing smock (5)
Make public what one breathes (3)
ACROSS
1 Pupil (7)
5 Stringed music instrument (5) 8 Circle (literary) (7)
9 Mom’s brother (5)
10 Fitted to the matter on
hand (9)
12 Owing (3)
13 Garden barrier (5)
17 Night bird (3)
19 Lessening of intensity (9)
21 Twelve (5)
22 Sound of radio static (7)
24 Row of bushes (5)
25 Glut (7)
DOWN
1 Draw blade across (6)
2 Roman numeral C (7)
3 Romanian money (3)
4 Thread rope end through (5) 5 Myriad
6 Clear-minded (5)
7 Bottle-top popper (6)
11 Implied meaning (9)
14 Sparkle (7)
15 Seat on back of elephant (6) 16 Turn upside down (6)
18 Was lolling about (5)
20 Derides (5)
23 Simple tune (3)
ACROSS
1 A later addition (12)
7 Become calm (6,4)
11 Deep ravine (5)
15 Persist with (4,2)
17 Pre-adult insect (5)
18 Insects atracted to light
(5)
19 Figures of speech (6)
21 Additional (5)
23 Large snake (3)
24 Personnel on boats (pl) (5) 26 As well (4)
27 More than required (6)
29 Walk quietly (6)
31 Norse god with a hammer
(4)
32 Obstreperous (inf ) (7)
33 Cause of great affliction
(7)
34 Tiny bit (4)
36 Quick haircut (4)
38 Portable light source (4) 40 Chest bones (4)
42 Spherical pearl (4)
43 Aromatic seeds used in
curry (5)
44 Sprints (4)
46 Reddish-brown hue (6)
47 Beams (4)
48 Glacial snowfield (4)
49 Artist’s workshop (6)
50 Wine (inf ) (4)
51 Americium (symbol) (2)
52 Desmond . . . (Peace
Nobelist) (4)
53 Invalid (4)
54 Biased (6)
57 Sway (9)
58 Revenue (6)
60 Put an end to (5)
62 Egg layer (3)
63 Almond, eg (3)
64 Beneath (5)
66 Newly polished (5)
68 Inland waterway (5)
70 Knock over (5)
72 Motionless (5)
73 Simple cotton fabric (6)
75 Conquer (6)
77 Grand . . . Auto (video
game) (5)
79 Oracle (4)
81 Prison room (4)
82 Level area of elevated
land (7)
84 Vow-exchanging sites (7) 88 Ultimately (7)
90 Writing desk with drawers
(6)
92 Number on a golf hole (3) 93 Arm exercise (4-2)
95 Demands firmly (7)
96 Scruple (abbr) (3)
97 Yellowfin tuna (3)
98 Aromatic herb (7)
99 Aptitude (6)
100 Long guns (6)
101 Manioca (7)
102 Smartphone download
(3)
103 Roman 3 (3)
104 Conference (7)
105 Flower fluid (6)
107 Possess (3)
109 Paper handkerchief (6) 111 Chase (7)
114 Creates fashion (7)
117 In secret (Latin) (3,4) 120 Poetic foot (4)
122 Rests on a chair (4)
124 Furnish with supplies (5) 125 Standing frames (6)
128 One of four in a year (6) 130 Woollen cloth (5)
131 Without exception (3) 132 Didn’t get a seat (5)
133 Military trainee (5)
134 Food served with wasabi
(5)
137 Zero (3)
138 Geologic time period (3) 139 At . . . (if nothing else) (5) 142 Modifying part of speech
(6)
144 Accessible (9)
145 Goes by (6)
147 Chop-chop (abbr) (4) 148 Agony . . . (magazine counselling columnist) (4)
149 Old Russian emperor (4) 150 Exchange (4)
151 French regional dialect
(6)
153 Dance genre (3)
155 Tardy (4)
157 Prepare a museum
exhibit (6)
159 Pleasant (4)
160 Tool to draw straight
lines (5)
162 Remove fat from milk (4) 163 Have stitched (4)
164 Harvest (a crop) (4)
165 Grime (4)
166 Dry run (4)
168 Pays no attention to (7) 170 Gin and vermouth drink
(7)
171 Knitting material (4)
172 Smile coyly (6)
175 Hush-hush (6)
177 One of the continents (4) 178 In sorrier shape (5)
180 Online payment (abbr)
(3)
181 Groups working together
(5)
183 Queasy feeling (6)
185 Roof tile material (5)
186 Stir up (5)
187 Absurd (6)
189 Woolly mammal (5)
190 Separate (6)
191 Sergeant (abbr) (3)
192 Environment (12)
DOWN
1 Clumsy (7)
2 Finish with the same
score (3)
3 Gloomy (9)
4 Remove from office (4) 5 Star system (6)
6 Curt (5)
7 Mops up (5)
8 Ease off (3,2)
9 70s dance clubs (6)
10 Off-target (4)
12 17th Gk letter (3)
13 Guarantees (7)
14 Removed weapons
from (8)
16 Wealthy (10)
18 Wrestling surface (3) 20 Laced together (10)
22 Say again (6)