CRYPTIC CLUES
Quick Clues
ACROSS
1. Ado (4)
3. Reprove (8)
8. Unusual (4)
9. Abuse (8)
11. Improper (12)
13. Brightness (6)
14. Shrewd (6)
17. Foreboding (12)
20. Perpendicular (8)
21. Trick (4)
22. Abated (8)
23. Mountains (4)
DOWN
1. Strong (8)
2. Remainder (7)
4. Scarcity (6)
5. Sanguine (10)
6. Sluggish (5)
7. Abhor (4)
10. Unprovoked attack (10)
12. Unsettled (8)
15. Unbalanced (7)
16. Mad (6)
18. Pastoral (5)
19. Assert (4)
Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 1 Accountancy; 9 Boredom; 10 Osier; 11 Theme; 12 Extreme; 13 Utmost; 15 Estate; 18 Torrent; 20 Anger; 22 Venue; 23 Finesse; 24 Brotherhood.
DOWN: 2 Curse; 3 Oddness; 4 Number; 5 About; 6 Chimera; 7 Obstructive; 8 Free-hearted; 14 Mariner; 16 Staunch; 17 Stifle; 19 Erect; 21 Gusto.
23. Able to go where one likes for nothing (4)
DOWN
1. It helps if you require a frame-up (4,4)
2. Stops and prepares a plan (5,2)
4. Records there’s something missing from the yearbooks (6)
Lowest sort of price one may pay for a piece of the sea bed? (4,6)
Goodbye to a Frenchman (5) A misshapen nose ages (4)
It was once thought incredible (4,6) A quiet little craving for food (8)
Bow tie? (7)
Rather earlier (6)
A seed that grows into a tree (5)
One old car in a pileup (4)
ACROSS
1. Half of the record team (4)
3. Bearing the cost of transport (8)
8. An impression of a jumble sale (4)
9. Idleness indeed (8)
11. Work for those too careless for regular employment (6,6) Could be true about a record achieving fame (6) Accelerate promotion (4,2) Turn a blind eye when an employee wants to leave? (4,2,6) Time soon modifies feelings (8) Part of the Tuileries holding the sewers (4)
22. Gilbert and Sullivan’s stagecraft (8)
Yesterday’s Solutions ACROSS: 1 French chalk; 9 Regimen; 10 Basil; 11 Votes; 12 Outpost; 13 Caress; 15 Chaste; 18 Angular; 20 Gavel; 22 Gales; 23 Dragoon; 24 Make headway.
DOWN: 2 Right; 3 Nemesis; 4 Hansom; 5 Habit; 6 Lessons; 7 Grave charge; 8 Clothes-line; 14 Regalia; 16 Haggard; 17 Grudge; 19 Lisle; 21 Viola. 13.
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