CROSSWORD

Combo Cross No. 4245

Straight Clues ACROSS

2 Seizes and holds 5 Wine bottle 7 Closer 8 Bush call 11 Pin of wood 12 Showy-flowered herb 14 Gasoline 16 Hard metal 17 Crimson 18 Harbour 20 Make certain 21 Stage direction 22 Rely

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1 Ring of light 2 Unit of inheritance 3 Parisian dance 4 A remarkable thing 6 Favourable reception 9 Double curve 10 Nobleman 12 An appeal 13 Entice 15 The holding of property 18 Give attention 19 Watch TV

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

2 Understands capital punishment in the grass 5 Arrives early in the restaurant for a flask of wine 7 Stingier when more close at hand 8 A prolonged clear call from the sound of a dove with ease 11 Scapegoats conceal a clothes hanger 12 Filleted perch and a kind of salmon produce a variously coloured flower 14 Have oI permute fuel 16 Soundly rob from a metal alloy 17 Incredibly scarlet 18 A place of shelter in Fifth Avenue 20 Guarantee to protect 21 Everybody off stage - once out of tune 22 Be conditioned to trust

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1 Briefly etch a long corona 2 A unit of heredity of Mr Kelly, the actor 3 A Native American helicopter 4 Phone fellows on sight 6 Taking on acknowledgement 9 A double curve like the letter S - Oh golly! 10 Peer at mid-yearly inclusions 12 An entreaty can be a little unpleasant 13 To tempt, is against the rule 15 The period in office of neuter individuals 18 Take notice of some of the editors 19 Look at the landscape