BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2422
EASY NOT SO EASY
ACROSS
02. Paved area outside house (5)
05. One's calling (4)
07. Cry (4)
08. Unnecessary (8)
09. Monitors (8)
11. Rubber disc in ice-hockey (4)
12. Something advantageous, ancillary to activity (6,7)
15. Get together in a group (4)
17. Fence of stakes (8)
19. Cheeky (8)
21. Protracted (4)
22. Paradise Garden (4)
23. Slumbered (5)
DOWN
01. Less obscure (7)
02. Ginger beer (3)
03. Garment (5)
04. Superintend (7)
05. Nothing (3)
06. Sound art (5)
10. Made to pay, as penalty (5)
11. Removes skin (5)
13. Woman of power (7)
14. Puts in for; notches (7)
16. Having a gun (5)
18. Lissome (5)
20. Tea-receptacle (3)
21. Ignited (3)
ACROSS
02. Irishman, one to ring when you want a courtyard (5)
05. Nay: Meg ends o the what-d'ye-call-it (4)
07. Being very little, quietly shed tears (4)
08. Superfluous, sewing-implements being doubled at the end (8)
09. They have authority to wield sceptre loudly inside (8)
11. Hobgoblin gets a whacking in ice-hockey match (4)
12. Bang: the advantage is, it's something on the side (6,7)
15. The gang that may have a musical output (4)
17. Friend that is unhappy inside may provide a stake fence (8)
19. I am cautious, right out – cheeky, too! (8)
21. Very much want to be extended (4)
22. One-time Prime Minister's garden for first inhabitants (4)
23. Wasn't conscious of Louis' leadership among seven from France (5)
DOWN
01. One getting over the hurdle is easier to understand (7)
02. Sort of music that might be bottled or canned? (3)
03. Something to wear cut about I being turned up (5)
04. What periscope enables one to do is be a supervisor (7)
05. No end to the river, and nothing on the scoreboard (3)
06. ‘Hell is full of ______al amateurs: ________ is the brandy of the damned’ (GB Shaw) (5)
10. Cleared the beer but got punished as to the pocket (5)
11. Skins that nod o when upside-down (5)
13. What Queen was to send me back to Fleet Street? (7)
14. Makes out written order and cuts it zig-zag (7)
16. What Venus de Milo originally was, with a gun? (5)
18. Being supple, he got o first (5)
20. Tea container necessary to neighbour nevertheless (3)
21. Got fire going when he left 18 (3)