CRYPTIC CLUES

Two sets of clues but the answers are the same

ACROSS

Not have great stature, so be disparaging (8)

Was in the habit of the secondhand (4)

This tooth spotted incognito (3)

A dramatist it would be sin to disturb (5)

10 Point coming back from moribund state (3)

Fur used by collier when about four (7)

Still one has rent to put out (5) People on holiday may be taken in by them (11)

You find lamb rewritten in this book (5)

Ceramic work, and where it comes from (7)

Eggs of avocet half turned (3) Is not suited to be seen by this eye without glasses (5) Tibetan gazelle or Indian state? (3)

Look for a way to understand a king (4)

Made an offer of support, and does get confused (8) 12 13 20 21

DOWN

It suited one, the way one developed into it (6)

2 Sort of berry rocking stone

may provide (5)

3 Unsuccessful person gets

nearer being beheaded (5)

5 One scene-change that’s about

right if it’s heartfelt (7)

6 Discussion with young woman

who came out at tea break (6) 7 Quaint date is perhaps very

old-fashioned (10)

9 A transaction in an official

robe (10) 1 2

The offended take it, and will bare gum about it (7) Local dialect one may be so apt to get wrong (6) Personal delivery, not using machinery (2,4)

Game of cards that may be red-hot in fire (5)

One moves slowly sideways to the borders (5)

ACROSS

1 Make one feel small (8)

4 Previously owned (4)

8 Gear-wheel tooth (3)

9 Norwegian playwright (5)

10 Gist (3)

11 White fur in ceremonial wear

(7)

12 Still (5)

13 Small homely hotels (11)

17 Book to store photographs (5) 18 China factory (7)

20 Egg cells (3)

21 Unclothed (5)

22 Coastal state of India (3)

23 Look for (4)

24 Offered marriage (8)

DOWN

Developed into (6) Highest mountain in Canada (5)

3 Also-ran (5)

5 Unfeigned (7)

6 Reasoned discussion (6)

7 Very old-fashioned (10)

9 Money put into shares, etc (10) 14 (Take) offence (7)

15 Provincial dialect (6)

16 Delivered in person (2,4)

18 Card game (5)

19 Rims (5)