THE CROSSWORDS

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 What Boy Scouts may sing about (4,4)

5 Like one on a large piece of land (4)

9 Unusual job an instrumentalist may hold (5)

10 It’s said one may disappear into it at a great height (4,3) 11 Lady of letters has an appointment with the teacher (12)

13 Cats in the pound (6) 14 Recent change of heart (6) 17 Fail to understand decimals correctly? (4,3,5)

20 A plant holder? (7)

21 This girl is different I’d say (5) 22 Study a book about publicity (4)

23 A way to gain an admission (8)

DOWN

1 Sweet melting form (4) 2 Rainy day in the near

future (7)

3 How one knows immediately

someone is surprised (4,3,5) 4 Sell and tell (6)

6 A ghostly colour? (5)

7 Held in apprehension? (8) 8 An infant prodigy; which is

hardly surprising (6,6)

12 He trains regularly before

work (8)

15 Numbers take charge in

stress (7)

16 Magical flier (6)

18 So any change is nominal for

her (5)

19 Not Stevenson’s better

half (4)