Crossword Puzzle

NO. 16 453

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Part of the Arabian Sea (7,4)

9. Japanese paperfolding (7)

10. Offspring (5)

11. Work dough (5)

12. Fool (7)

13. Skill (6)

15. Threaded fasteners (6)

18. Flightless bird (7)

20. Representation (5)

22. Furnish (5)

23. Swagger (7)

24. January 1st (3,5,3)

DOWN

2. Banishment (5)

3. Substitute (5,2)

4. With hands on hips (6)

5. Intense sorrow (5)

6. Supple (7)

7. Child’s allowance (6,5)

8. Arm-joint complaint (6,5)

14. Salad vegetable (7)

16. Direction-finding instrument (7)

17. Fear (6)

19. Suggest (5)

21. Play (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1. Austere menu provided at Thermopylae? (7,4) 9. Provide too many workers for one in charge at the mine (7) 10. Don’t take your eyes off the timekeeper (5) 11. Father’s getting thanks for this food (5) 12. Dismiss a finance officer (7) 13. When one leaves Harriet is somewhat confused (6) 15. Fellow needs a long time to cope (6) 18. You could find ether around at this place (7) 20. A pie’s turned brown (5) 22. Travelled to the ring for the cattle show (5) 23. Could be out with a toboggan in a dishevelled state (7) 24. They produce what the caddy holds (3,8)

DOWN

2. Soft fish skins (5) 3. To make a racket a long time afterwards (7) 4. Air can affect this soothing tincture (6) 5. More than one deer cringes (5) 6. Tins are required for wine (7) 7. Surgeons working in tandem? (2-9) 8. Gangers include a labourer in accusations (6,5) 14. It’s trodden underfoot and altered out of shape (7) 16. Attack a seaman, we hear (7) 17. She’s embraced by Robert Harrison (6) 19. Kind of ship used mainly for those in a private capacity (5) 21. Describing worldly extremes (5)