{ THE CROSSWORDS }

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Parson crazed with love for a highly vocal female (7)

5 Rewritten items for a newspaper (5)

8 Raging king of the insect world? (6,7)

9 Prize for a hospital room (5)

10 If trail is damaged, send supplies by plane (7) 11 Is hard, perhaps, but may be eaten (6)

12 One in the biology class is very bright (6) 15 Cooperation, as in oil production (7)

17 Animal not usually laden (5)

19 A musician has a part in this arrangement, not a chorister (13)

20 It is in fact a long claw (5)

21 An improvement in relations (7)

DOWN

1 Brown as pie, perhaps (5)

2 Upset the applecart - darn, it’s all in (4,3,6) 3 Insinuates all dues are wrong (7)

4 Specified period sometime in the future (3,3)

5 He raises his glass often to each (5)

6 Wrong action - I’m for it, to my dismay! (13) 7 Unorthodox priests who may get up to mischief (7)

11 Exclude a possible cause of faulty measurement (4,3)

13 Get lean in order to be graceful (7)

14 New tune I’d put together (6)

16 Grim end (5)

18 Needs to be close (5)