Crossword:

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 14775

2 Can a very close arithmetic system

5 Complain about a bird

7 Tiny bits of bread – gee!

8 Fill in the cracks with a mixture of luck

11 An officer with a company of fifty

12 Left comfort for hire

14 Carry the day and take the prize (4,5)

16 Lip from one side of the face

17 As well as an ampersand sign

18 Get the feel of flounder

20 Take it easy on the southern sort of

bear say

21 Acclamation from sound petitions

22 Sidle right up to loafers

DOWN

1 The spiritual guide is recognised as

an expert

2 A Scottish curtsy accompanies call

3 Secret tenure is neither one nor the other

4 Hearty Eliot has perfect health

6 Somehow I crocheted and recoiled

9 This lily is a Leo

10 The French weekend is allied to the onion

12 The yarn-spinner utters untruths

13 In a hurry when out of cash by early April

15 The fellows a champion troublemaker

18 Defrauds gypsum without hesitation

19 Correct a broken heart by the end of May

STRAIGHT CLUES

ACROSS 2 Indicating two

5 Very good (coll)

7 Golly!

8 Close seams

11 Little Colonel?

12 Rent

14 Win (4,5)

16 Impudence

17 Also

18 Fumble

20 Dependable

21 Compliment

22 Layabouts

DOWN

1 Teacher

2 A brook

3 Gender

4 Sturdiness

6 Rebounded

9 Lily plant

10 National emblem of Wales

12 Fibber

13 Quickly (init)

15 Hazard

18 Swindles

19 All right