Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES Across

4 Work (7)

8 Broken

fragments (6)

9 Behaviour (7)

10 Publicly (6)

11 Mystic (6)

12 Starving (8)

18 Sneak (8)

20 Lacking (6)

21 Saunter (6)

22 Calculate (7)

23 Smaller (6)

24 Introduction (7)

Down

1 Postpone (7)

2 See (7)

3 Musical

instrument (6)

5 Suggestion (8)

6 Diminish (6)

7 Grapple (6)

13 Obsolete (8)

14 Revel (7)

15 Proclaim (7)

16 Consume (6)

17 Force (6)

19 Foam (6)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

4 Didn't lack a place to

land the fish (7)

8 Listen somehow to the recruiting officer's plea? (6)

9 Made a pretence a

reality? (7)

10 Go-ahead newspaper

article? (6)

11 Spares could be few

and far between (6)

12 Almost a hit with the

girl next door (4,4)

18 Belief about men in the

building (8)

20 This clue should be

adequate! (6)

21 I'm given a role to

communicate (6)

22 They tell how actions

were done (7)

23 Descriptive of a man

who can't settle (6)

24 Soften sausage mash

(7)

Down

1 Drop off or refuse to

do so (7)

2 It's dated even before

use (7)

3 The respect in which going up meets the point (6)

5 Two fools in murderous

combination (8)

6 Number of towns in

S.Africa (6)

7 A mark of credit and

comfort (6)

13 Sacked, no doubt!

(2,3,3)

14 Indeed was at length

held up (7)

15 No unwritten law (7)

16 A poem has a point of positive significance

(6)

17 Foreign office desk?

(6)

19 Something valuable

from copper mines (6)