CRYPTIC CLUES

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Insipid (9)

8. Regret (3)

9. Accountable (11)

11. Cell (7)

12. Fool (5)

13. Posture (6)

15. Multitude (6)

17. Alliance (5)

18. Grain store (7)

20. Food (11)

22. Age (3)

23. Incessantly (9)

DOWN

2. Wonder (3)

3. Elicit (5)

4. Relieving (6)

5. Sink (7)

6. Sudden (11)

7. Wavering (9)

10. Lurid (11)

11. Worried (9)

14. Bewilder (7)

16. Kindle (6)

19. Pale (5)

21. Nothing (3)

Friday’s Solutions

ACROSS: 7 Growth; 8 Colour; 10 Operate; 11 Farce; 12 Laud; 13 Quash; 17 Watch; 18 Bear; 22 First; 23 Ruinous; 24 Inform; 25 Motion.

DOWN:1 Ignoble; 2 Doleful; 3 Steal; 4 Confess; 5 Board; 6 Green; 9 Sepulchre; 14 Mastery; 15 Deposit; 16 Present; 19 Affix; 20 Craft; 21 Pivot.

ACROSS 1. They don’t like to strike (9)

8. Dry manner (3)

9. Kick the account around or pay up (4,3,4)

11. Taken from cover and shot (7)

12. A step that’s different in making adhesive (5) Royal house that is divided internally, naturally (6) Go over undulating track (6) Man’s highest state? (5) Something to keep aunty in change (7) Occasion some face with resolution (3,5,3)

22. Complete part of a game of bowls (3)

23. It’s a rigid rule (9)

Friday’s Solutions ACROSS: 7 Reason; 8 Urbane; 10 Erosion; 11 Group; 12 Lark; 13 Chide; 17 Swede; 18 Bowl; 22 Ravel; 23 Commons; 24 Mentor; 25 Strove.

DOWN: 1 Orderly; 2 Masonry; 3 Movie; 4 Tragedy; 5 Baton; 6 Tempo; 9 In the dock; 14 Swallow; 15 Solomon; 16 Ulysses; 19 Drama; 20 Ovine; 21 Amity. 13.

15. 17. 18. 20.

DOWN

2. A to-do? Yes (3)

3. Changing a flat could be ruinous (5)

4. Firm stayed disorganised (6)

5. Not a sure footed mule (7)

6. Remembers and shouts a warning (5,2,4)

7. Many cheer the reformation of Satan (4-5)

10. Singular displays of musical virtuosity (3-3,5)

Cry that may cause apprehension (4,5) It could be used to make a get-away! (7) Rush through a life’s work (6)

They may supply arresting information from the ranks (5)

Car goes round a bend (3) 11. 14. 16. 19.

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