Two-In-One

No 5136

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 What marksmen use for locating heights? (12) 7 See 13 Down 8 It needs some pluck to proscribe Josephine! (5) 9 Display of temper when father loses his head (3)

10 Paradoxically, a spiritless community (5,4) 11 Famous bareback rider (6) 12 Tearaway to indulge in exploitation (3,3) 15 Authoritative decree for one in the artillery (9) 17 Lightly touch on a quotation (3) 18 Somehow I’m at a

fine fiddle! (5)

19 Bailiff is removed from here eventually (5)

21 Assistant scribes in the insurance world? (12)

DOWN

1 Count of all those at the startingblocks? (7,5) 2 Some of the children adore her (3) 3 Where one enters a kind of game (6) 4 The part of the balance-sheet that does you no credit! (5,4)

5 Get right on to perform a recurring musical theme (5)

6 Approximate golf

scores? (5,7)

7 Money required

for food (5)

10 Either sent to prison or allowed breathingspace (5,4)

13 & 7Ac. Where the bishop may be seen serving as a director (2,3,5)

14 Disciple to wander

all over the place (6)

16 As tense as evenly contested matches are (5)

20 One following the Spanish patriarch (3)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

1 Perplexity (12)

7 Perspire (5)

8 Animal track (5)

9 Epoch (3)

10 Innocent (9)

11 Ditch (6)

12 Leeway (6)

15 Bend (9)

17 Japanese sash (3)

18 Avoid (5)

19 Cleanse (5)

21 Confinement (12)

DOWN

1 Wearing glasses (12)

2 Untruth (3)

3 Net (6)

4 Be naughty (9)

5 Lasso (5)

6 Foreboding (12)

7 Frighten (5)

10 Sea-rover (9)

13 Copse (5)

14 Uproar (6)

16 Kingdom (5)

20 Manage (3)

For today’s solutions text CRYPTIC or SIMPLE followed by the clue to 53307 (eg SIMPLE 1 down to 53307)

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