THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS 1 Talk to William about the fuel account (3,4) 5 Handy aids to warmth (5)
8 Hit or miss affair indicating a wrongful conviction? (5,3,5)
9 A friend joins Mother in Majorca (5)
10 It may be worn as a favour (7)
11 Natural encores (6)
12 Times for working garments (6)
15 Make a book? (7)
17 Fanciful idea about breaking an embankment (5)
19 Fixed rule deciding priority in a queue? (8,5) 20 Records talk without us (5)
21 Put into bonds an account of great interest? (7)
DOWN
1 Leave your bed clothes (3-2)
2 Upset some runners? Let’s hear about it (5,3,5)
3 Reputation for enjoying poor health? (3-4) 4 They’re fitted inside ships (6)
5 Joins, suffers and pays (5)
6 Court verdict on Eve? (5,8)
7 They first hit the ball and wait (7) 11 Unmasked once one asked questions (7) 13 No inner sanctuary (7)
14 Risk not completing part of the church (6) 16 Large river some Asians find useful (5) 18 Moslem leader said to be virtuous (5)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 1 Fervid (7)
5 A valuable quality (5)
8 Brief illusory success (5,2,3,3) 9 Purport (5)
10 To free from guilt (7) 11 Evasive (6)
12 Bad-tempered (6) 15 Rice-based dish (7) 17 Imagine (5)
19 Grandly (2,1,5,5)
20 Smooth and glossy (5) 21 Held up (7) DOWN 1 Be suitable for (5) 2 Extremely slowly (2,1,6,4) 3 Receive by bequest (7) 4 Kindly (6)
5 Remains of fire (5) 6 Additional (13)
7 Leather factory (7)
11 Grave (7)
13 Denial (7)
14 Stubbornly determined (6) 16 Course for racing (5)
18 To produce (5)