Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES

Across

7. Feel a strong desire (to) (4,1,4,4) 8. Supporter (8) 9. Declare (4)

10. Awe (6)

12. Cares for (6)

14. Away from home (6) 16. Infrequent (6)

18. A large number (4) 20. Permission to

proceed (3,5)

22. Prayers said in the

open (6,7)

Down

1. Don't touch! (5,3)

2. Myth (6)

3. Monster (4)

4. Filling (8)

5. Damage (6)

6. Loosen (4)

11. Removal (8)

13. Rapturous (8)

15. Without difficulty (6)

17. Most proficient (6)

19. Burden (4)

21. Booty (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. Be be brainy? strongly (4,1,4,4) inclined to

8. Follower of a neat

herd (8)

9. Admit a pledge (4)

10. What a marvel – got

victory over backward

Communist (6)

12. Patient care is their

concern (6)

14. Failed in the open (6)

16. Thin spears broken (6)

18. There may be a chance

to draw them (4)

20. Everything is plain

at the end of the

emergency (3,5)

22. Not the secret service,

of course (6,7)

Down

1. Don't touch: the workers are leaving (5,3)

2. A myth about where the foot is? (6)

3. Make the giant go up again (4)

4. Study camping equipment from the inside (8)

5. I am to get two to spoil (6)

6. Open around one, content (4)

11. Let the bride be missing at the ball? Goodwelcome relief! (8) 13. Rapturous oriental tactics reformed (8) 15. Lie, say, without difficulty (6)

17. The most competent stable reorganization (6) 19. Where the responsibility lies (4) 21. Implement picked up in plunder (4)