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QUICK CLUES Across

1 Closed (4)

8 Declare (10)

9 Crossing out (8)

10 Snuggery (4)

12 Reverence (6)

14 Screw-shaped

(6)

15 Force (6)

17 Burlesque (6)

18 Carry (4)

19 Cheating (8)

21 Devious (10)

22 Multitude (4)

Down

2 Formerly (10)

3 Domesticated (4)

4 Yearn (6)

5 Happenings (6)

6 Boundary (8)

7 Went away (4)

11 Defamatory (10)

13 Seeming (8)

16 Mortal (6)

17 Jail (6)

18 Drill (4)

20 Kindred (4)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Does religious work (4)

8 Understand what the land investor hopes his property will do (10)

9 It could be simple

curiosity (8)

10 Many a poem is not

readily understood (4)

12 Foiled - the

trespassers? (6)

14 Enjoy a flavour (6)

15 Car involved in a

detour erroneously (6)

17 Four upset about a show of great enthusiasm (6)

18 In this case the points

should be safe (4)

19 Of necessity, and through coercion apparently (8)

21 Not against change though it's the wrong condition for it (10)

22 Half of the record team

(4)

Down

2 If you're not up before

ten you may be (7,3)

3 Wise man in season (4)

4 Add a very quiet finale

(6)

5 Comparatively good

as a punter (6)

6 The shape of a

pamphlet? (8)

7 A venerable name in England's illustrious past (4)

11 Sent crazy by other claims on your attention? (10)

13 Bearing the cost of

transport (8)

16 TV programme that's

being reviewed? (6)

17 Loud Verdi composition full of fire and passion (6)

18 Some conversed in

Gaelic (4)

20 Admits being in

possession (4)