YESTERDAY ’S SOLUTIONS

DOUBLE CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Heat; 3 Seascape; 9 Tapster; 10 Put up; 11 Evening dress; 13 Direct; 15 Unseen; 17 Hair's breadth; 20 Lithe; 21 Tedious; 22 Fireside; 23 Dead. Down: 1 Hotheads; 2 Apple; 4 Enrage; 5 Superintends; 6 Artiste; 7 Espy; 8 Stair carpets; 12 Enthused; 14 Reactor; 16 Abated; 18 Drone;

19 Clef.

Quick: Across: 1 Same; 3 Precious; 9 Rescind; 10 Needs; 11 Peradventure; 13 Encamp; 15 Runner;

17 Pleasantness; 20 Cargo;

21 In order; 22 External; 23 Free. Down: 1 Scrapped; 2 Miser; 4 Redden; 5 Construction; 6 Overrun; 7 So-so; 8 Misdemeanour; 12 Preserve; 14 Culprit; 16 Marina; 18 Elder;

19 Ache.

WORD WHEEL: ABUNDANCE. MINIQUIZ:

1 Orthodontics; 2 The Dead Sea; 3 Leonard Bernstein; 4 Charles Dickens; 5 Royal Air Force; 6 Sandwich; 7 Geiger counter; 8 Diego Maradona; 9 Queen Anne; 10 Wiltshire.

WORD SPIRAL: 1 Fang; 2 Goal; 3 Lost; 4 Teak; 5 King; 6 Glad; 7 Deep; 8 Pass; 9 Scar; 10 Robs; 11 Sore; 12 Ends; 13 Ship; 14 Pram; 15 Mill; 16 Loan. Keyword: Pianist.

CLOCKWORD:

1 Eraser, 2 Dagger, 3 Wonder, 4 Answer, 5 Roster, 6 Duffer, 7 Docker, 8 Eclair, 9 Bender, 10 Onager, 11 Number, 12 Ostler. PSYCHOLOGIST: Edward de Bono.

CODEWORD: 1=Z, 2=T, 3=N, 4=P, 5=C, 6=W, 7=X, 8=Y, 9=M, 10=J, 11=F, 12=A, 13=V, 14=Q, 15=G, 16=R, 17=I, 18=L, 19=B, 20=H, 21=S, 22=U, 23=D, 24=O, 25=K, 26=E.