Twinplex

No 16,702

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

6 Put out of sight over in the chalice (5,2) 7 Slippers for stubborn folk? (5) 9 Retreat at the end of the garden (3) 10 Bone man has top toe fractured (9)

12 Do they give out a beat to get steamed up about? (6,5) 15 She knows just how to behave with pertly faced make-up (7,4)

17 She has fifty seals around - found them on the beach (3,6) 19 Trouble with a commercial ring (3) 21 Quiet, please saint not feeling too good (5) 22 Takes off fur coats (7)

DOWN

1 Forty winks before number twelve (5) 2 Three ways to make repairs (3) 3 Hubbub involving us at heart (4)

4 Not a smooth trip and splattered by ripe mud (5,4) 5 When to eat haphazardly before five, for example? (7) 8 Show concerning Eva going to pieces with learner (6)

11 Gnome-like with sly exterior and without thought for others (9) 13 Marked it up on the splintered deck (6) 14 Further performances by engineers taking on fuel (7)

16 Farewell across the

channel (5)

18 Flower girl (4) 20The solution lies in a

black eye! (3)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

6 Conceal (5,2)

7 Backless

shoes (5)

9 Lair (3)

10 Bone specialist (9) 12 Percussion

instruments (6,5) 15 Polite woman (7,4) 17 Discarded mollusc coverings (3,6) 19 Fuss (3)

21 Stationary (5) 22Wool coats (7)

DOWN

1 Twelve (5)

2 Stitch (3)

3 Bother (4)

4 Uncomfortable

journey (5,4)

5 Midafternoon (7) 8 Disclose (6)

11 For oneself (9) 13 Checked (6)

14 Reiterates (7) 16 Farewell (5)

18 Flower (4) 20Piano lever (3)