STRAIGHT CLUES CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Bothers

7 Wheel shaft

8 Rescuing

10 Quick steady gait 11 Pressed clothes 13 Stargazers

16 Pleasing to

the ear

18 Assistant

20 Commands

ACROSS 1

22 21 Boyfriend 22 One who is

going past

Combo Cross No. 5340 9 Unit of electric

potential

12 Morse

components

14 Get back

15 A Great Lake

17 Second-hand

18 Shaping tool

19 Dreary

DOWN 2 Bellow 3 Single item 4 Law makers 5 Skirt like garment 6 Indication

8 Single thread

Causes inconvenience to breaches of the peace

7 Across the overseas mandrel

8 Taking care of economy

10 Go briskly into the bistro twice 11 Smoothed clothes with metal,

acquired lately

13 Planet students become

horoscope producers

16 Clued up at last to become

soothing and pleasant

18 The deputy has just about said

enough

20 Within Lord Erskine’s

arrangements

21 One’s sweetheart is a heartless bloke, starting August

One who skirts an eyewitness, perhaps

DOWN

2 Laugh heartily at a leading role

at army headquarters

3 A feature of a military

subdivision

4 They enact laws for

parliamentarians

5 An item of beachwear from seaside high rollers, by the end of spring

6 An inkling as to what this is 8 Run aground with a string

of pearls

9 A unit of EMF is a little revolting 12 Hastens punctuation marks

14 Compensate for some more

couples

15 The very centre that is the southernmost of the Great Lakes

17 Operated in a country outside

England

18 Read zealously for part of a

carpenter’s toolkit

19 One who practises on the

sailor, becomes lack-lustre