CROSSWORD

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Go to pieces 4 Countered 7 Relocate at a long distance (4,3,4) 9 Inches (abb) 10 Ravine 12 Equipment 13 Bailiff 15 Henchman 17 Highest mark 19 Affirmative reply 21 Reply to 22 Follow 23 Screams

DOWN

1 Asian small tree 2 No way

3 A ground beverage 4 Traditional dress of Indian women 5 Search for under

ground water 6 Those who in

dulge in fantasy 8 Divine messenger 11 Verdant

14 Glen 16 Embankments constructed to keep out the sea 18 Foot-operated

lever

20 Painful

Cryptic Clues ACROSS

1 Type of grass to cause sudden terror

4 Teamed up with Sid Edwards 7 Change places and transfer a long way off (4,3,4) 9 Initially the International News Service is about sin 10 Without point, George may

overeat

12 Huge arrangements of

apparatus

13 The steward is about even 15 One who helps a right-hand man 17 The first of the real phantoms 19 Certainly an affirmation 21 Recognise the existence of

current cognisance

22 Result in green suede

23 Yes, the full back cries out loudly

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1 A several-chambered, manyseeded, globose fruit from which the Pommy is derived? 2 Absolutely not out of nine verses

3 Soundly cough with ease for

a beverage drunk in a cafe 4 Airs the principal outer garment of Hindu women 5 Search for subterranean

supplies sowed up

6 Reds may read to become

visionaries like this

8 A guardian spirit is an

attendant of God

11 Meagre enough to be

between yellow and blue 14 A land depression on oval leys 16 Ditches the barriers 18 Plead for part of a bicycle 20 Resentful about an abscess