Crossword Puzzle
Quick Clues
ACROSS
1. Responsiveness (11)
9. Craft (3)
10. Squire (9)
11. Disparage (5)
13. Component (7)
14. Pillar (6)
16. Twine (6)
18. Suppose (7)
19. Strict (5)
20. Praising (9)
21. Donkey (3)
22. Relative (11)
DOWN
2. Consume (3)
3. Foolish (5)
4. Offer (6)
5. Vehement (7)
6. Fruit (9)
7. Disabled (11)
8. Champion (11)
12. Gatherer (9)
15. Very sentimental (7)
17. Creed (6)
19. View (5)
21. Beer (3) Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 1 Task; 3 Scaffold; 9 Kremlin; 10 Often; 11 Asphyxiation; 13 Accent; 15 Aspect; 17 Professional; 20 Agile; 21 Ancient; 22 Straddle; 23 Tyro.
DOWN: 1 Take away; 2 Sleep; 4 Candid; 5 Frontispiece; 6 Outcome; 7 Dent; 8 Playing field; 12 Stiletto; 14 Carrier; 16 Assail; 18 Needy; 19 Lass.
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1. Insurance premium payable at restaurants (5,6) 9. Number one put back current particle (3) 10. Pure lives can become unattractive (9) 11. Remove from the paper, as expected (5) 13. They are used for refining word puzzles (7) 14. Company performing for a body of soldiers, one hears.. (6) 16. ...accompany the commanding officer among the rest, maybe (6) 18. Withdraw a statement about a religious paper (7) 19. Suitable time to score? (5) 20. Elephantine member of the orchestra! (9) 21. What the birds produce is extra, we hear (3) 22. Completely exhausted in an attitude of supplication (2,4,5)
DOWN
2. To have to admit! (3)
3. Eastern lake likely to give you the creeps! (5)
4. Frolics around ‚Äì they’re pickled! (6) 5. Refers to everything getting badly used (7) 6. Part of the restaurant where rigorous cross-examinations take place? (5,4) 7. Show one the way to speak for the board (11)
8. Alan Stone is unusually melodramatic (11) 12. Military order concerning the revolution (5,4)
15. The drama writer produces ‘The Nursery Enclosure’ (7)
17. More than one federal member makes a declaration (6)
19. Go round about one Italian location (5)
21. Be indebted for a letter, we hear (3)
Yesterday’s Solutions ACROSS: 1 Park; 3 Cash sale; 9 Several; 10 Ahead; 11 Overnight bag; 13 Euclid; 15 Street; 17 Proclamation; 20 Alien; 21 Takings; 22 Relieved; 23 Grip. DOWN: 1 Passover; 2 Revue; 4 Allege; 5 Heart attacks; 6 Average; 7 Ends; 8 Frankincense; 12 Stands up; 14 Cordial; 16 Cattle; 18 Inner; 19 Fair.