CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Mares worth breaking, although lowly creatures (10)

8 Musician to just beat

hesitation (5)

9 Sustain with food

prepared in hours (7) 10 Yearn to have a turn, but

not recently (4,3)

11 First to speak with

affectionate host (5) 12 Dawdler is reason for tour’s

lateness (9)

15 Seeps, it’s said, like these

vegetables? (5) 17 All together with regard to church service, as stated (2,5)

19 System for Reg and I to go

ahead of troops (7) 20 Kingdom not imaginary,

first of many (5)

21 Yet eat roll from drink

carrier (3,7)

DOWN

2 When writer appears in US

ski resort (5)

3 To sailors, trouble is a

whirlwind (7)

4 Outdoor worker creates a

nice new world (6,7) 5 Defeats when our turn on

back street (5) 6 Vegetable available from

Spain and Switzerland (7) 7 Mock the entrance of

Shakespearean actor (4) 8 Game of pool developed

(4)

12 Deftness of crew following

second leg leaders (7) 13 Seafarer’s alarm I’d set off

(7)

14 Ship’s steering gear made

from hard wood (4) 15 Some popular kind of

singer (4)

16 Dance with a doctor in

South Australia (5)

18 Use a razor in Rosebush

Avenue (5)