Irish Independent

Two-In-One

No 4,255

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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 A single person in the community (4)

8 Little work taking place causes resistance (10)

9 A brief era of dearth (8)

10 Harvest fruit from

4 in a muddle (4)

12 Gives prizes for publicity about fighting (6)

14 Many back on sucker production (6)

15 Bits of a cask help to make up a score (6)

17 This vessel ought to have the edge! (6)

18 Skinny king would be using his brain (4)

19 Crude to a teacher (8)

21 A tiny volume of timely records (6,4)

22 For this team to show it would be minor (4)

DOWN

2 Presumably he’s not the sort of person to spend the time of day with (5,5)

3 It is done by those who go round (4)

4 Transfixes fruit in ship (6)

5 Property viewed in the manner of complete groups (6)

6 Take steps as intending to be tiptop tipster? (5,3)

7 Production of an irascible photograph­er? (4)

11 Honourably open, but too proud to provide meals (5,5)

13 Talk wildly, but with intelligen­ce, being famished (8)

16 Sown as some players may be? (6)

17 The company is doing better with no return ticket (6)

18 I must receive the book (4)

20 Calls for baskets without gambling (4)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

1 Partly open (4)

8 Wipe out (10)

9 Unblemishe­d (8)

10 Target (4)

12 Vestiges (6)

14 Make different (6)

15 Less bright (6)

17 Tie up (6)

18 Have on (4)

19 Intrepid (8)

21 Ownership (10)

22 Retain (4)

DOWN

2 Endanger (10)

3 Rave (4)

4 If not (6)

5 Medicine (6)

6 Glaring (8)

7 Small duck (4)

11 Pugnacious (10)

13 Condense (8)

16 Deny (6)

17 Sad (6)

18 Mop (4) 20 Thin (4)

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