Paper.. The BIG Saturday Crossword

Cryptic clues

Across

1. Fattened and

bored (3,2) 4. Figures they’re old

fashioned people (7) 8. Possibly predate time-consuming bureaucracy (3,4) 9. Machinery in the

nursery (5) 10. Plays with trifles (4) 11. Girl who can enchant

a man (8) 13. Look at a lord (4) 14. Throw a stopper (4) 16. CIA brain translating in a foreign language (2,6) 17. Small label

on a deer (4) 20. Bury when inert,

perhaps (5) 21. Bill able to sing well (7) 22. Figure the mule ran

out (7) 23. Figure to

appreciate? (5)

Down

1. Where the top teams are when a child starts maths (5,8) 2. Father is a theologist during the day (5) 3. Quiet song for a drama (4) 4. Observe article and boil with anger (6) 5. Higher when drunk on punch (8) 6. Studying a Berkshire town (7) 7. Preside as arbiter for verdict on demonstration (3,2,8) 12. Mender or marriage guidance counsellor (8) 13. Spectre seen in Hampton? (7) 15. Sonny? (6) 18. Article found overnight (5) 19. Greedy headless man (4)

Down

1. Exact replica (8,5) 2. Firearm (5) 3. Corpse (4) 4. Weaken (6) 5. Located (8) 6. Honest (7) 7. Orally (2,4,2,5) 12. Investigation (8) 13. Bullfighter (7) 15. Easily (6) 18. Parry (5) 19. Pare (4)