Kentish Express Ashford & District - What's On
CROSSWORD
One grid, two sets of answers
CRYPTIC
ACROSS
1. Scottish town press chief found to be evil (6) 4. Rage of member stuck in broken tree (6)
9. To be assisted again is what Oliver wanted (6,7) 10. Part of East for me to go into fast (7)
11. Soft instrument (5)
12. Custom of the American era (5)
14. Souvenir of a more licentious time (5)
18. They are examinations, we hear (5)
19. Shock when dismissed with gear removed (7) 21. His prime tribe ran amok, once covering most of the world (7,6)
22. Turned over gold, perhaps (6)
23. Caught, or catch frozen food container (6) DOWN
1. Married outside, a good man squandered (6) 2. Reckon special treatment should be given to the dog (6,7)
3. Wise fellow to go out with Irene (5)
5. Broken pieces fifty put in the shade (7)
6. Asti, drunk in need, sold by government (13)
7. Rig one out to find an area (6)
8. Slide shed into church (5)
13. Petrol on sack will provide warmth (3,4)
15. Heart-throb Bertie’s sheltering pirate (6)
16. Car test takes an hour and a second for clothes-lovers (5)
17. Take objection to being posted again (6)
20. Speed to get European member in (5)
EASY
ACROSS
1. Diminish (6)
4. Dull (6) 9. Immediate (13) 10. Resilient (7) 11. Wrong (5)
12. Seize unjustly (5) 14. Viper (5)
18. Apart (5)
19. Put back (7) 21. Candour (5-8) 22. Stable (6)
23. Nook (6) DOWN
1. Invader (6) 2. Without bias (13) 3. Skill (5)
5. Drinking vessel (7) 6. Rapid increase (13)
7. Cease (6)
8. Pile (5)
13. Cultured (7) 15. Treeless plains (6)
16. Offal (5)
17. Mendicant (6) 20. Musical instrument (5)