Crossword:

CRYPT IC CLUES

ACROSS

2 Pay attention to a placard 5 A particular effect of a large, loose, hooded cloak, worn with a mask 7 Is a circle an obstacle to a line drawn on a weather map? 8 Lever used to show a young eel 11 Arid finish occurred on line 12 According to the letters it’s a sort of wheat 14 Reach your destination and it’s there you’ll be seen as a social climber by the French 16 In short, waste education on a lively stallion 17 Being single you have to figure it out 18 Clutched cold breathing aid 20 Carry beyond the proper limit and exaggerate 21 Rested in the Sahara 22 Repeatedly set up a blood- sucking fly

DOWN

1 A European capital in talkie voices 2 Not quite Sir, at a black and white movie 3 Back street holds poor return for soldiers 4 Church all turning green for one seeking title 6 Employees hands 9 Sounds like one who tells fibs about an ancient musical instrument 10 She gets to dine out 12 Where all one’s ills are displayed under a window 13 A renowned boy’s school of note 15 To be mistaken then get to lament 1 8 Dots and dashes out of disco demonstrations 1 9 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics may fuss right to the end

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS

2 Observe 5 Game block 7 Connecting line on a map 8 A young eel 1 1 Lacking water 1 2 Kind of wheat 1 4 Social climber ( Fr) 1 6 Spirited mount 1 7 An individual person 1 8 Gripped onto 20 Carry to excess 2 1 Wasteland 22 African fly

DOWN

1 Capital city of Ukraine 2 Black and white film genre 3 Soldiers 4 One seeking title 6 Workers 9 U- shaped stringed instrument 1 0 ... Blyton 1 2 Window ledge 1 3 Boy’s college 1 5 Sorrow 1 8 Morse 1 9 Former Russian empire ( init)

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