The Sligo Champion

2- Speed Crossword

Choose either the quick or cryptic clues - answers are the same.

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CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 7. Get into main tent in disguise - to see the circus? ( 13) 8. Old ones are immortal though gradually disappeari­ng, they say ( 8) 9. Employed in Lulu’s education ( 4) 10. A meal to take out? ( 6) 12. The sound of leaves displaying autumn colour ( 6) 14. By which may be a good place for 10 ( 6) 16. Conditioni­ng the soil or gathering fruit under the lindens? ( 6) 18. Arthur Duckworth’s tongue ( 4) 20. Added and finally guided the whole ( 8) 22. Attractive and quietly taking back ( 13) Down 1. Is he in favour of joining up? ( 8) 2. Exactly right. The display is in - done wrong! ( 4,2) 3. Last year’s bit of eye trouble ( 4) 4. Merlin in rags goes round the street as a musician ( 8) 5. Our involvemen­t in morning’s affairs ( 6) 6. The start of many a nursery tale ( 4) 11. Comes to a doctor in a deep sleep ( 8) 13. Do they throw light on the Scots tribe who lost their leader to the birds? ( 8) 15. Furnishes with oriental epigrams ( 6) 17. Interfere with the holy one at the end of the jetty ( 6) 19. Uncommon turn of the end ( 4) 21. There are fifteen of them to every three feet! ( 4)

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