10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD
ACROSS
6. Extend (7)
7. Light meal (5)
9. Speak (5)
10. Ripens (7)
12. Share owner (11)
14. Bespoke (4,2,5)
18. Unfeeling (7)
19. Awry (5)
21. Tilt (5)
22. Pardon (7)
DOWN
1. Condition (5)
2. Abandon (6)
3. Frigid (3)
4. Yearly (6)
5. Plotter (7)
8. Collects (7)
11. Eight-armed cephalopod (7)
13. Bullfighter (7)
15. Enrol (6)
16. Flag (6)
17. Depart (5)
20. Wand (3)
Across: 1 Disdainful; 7 Naive; 8 Creator; 10 Helpless; 11 Skit; 13 Strong; 15
Stance; 17 Also; 18 Sedition; 21 Marquee; 22 Knobs; 23 Necromancy. Down: 1 Drill; 2 Swelling; 3 Access; 4 Need; 5 Untaken; 6 Enthusiasm; 9 Rottenness; 12 Stricken; 14 Reserve; 16 Redeem; 19 Irony; 20 Purr.
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 He picks bananas, being
hungry (7)
5 Seafood piece about right (5) 8 Country nippy, it's said (5) 9 On the subject of letting
contract, free! (7)
10 Come down to the country (4) 11 Individual plan Rose messed
up (8)
13 Ached terribly during cold
season, so jacket offered (11) 17 Rise late, scramble and be
the first to arrive (8) 19 Upper-class pound shop (4) 21 Old Greek on army unit (7) 22 Unfamiliar fabrication in
article (5)
23 Messy study is not clean (5) 24 Golf supporter protects
the wet apprentice (7)
DOWN
1 Relish difficult situation (6) 2 Wine in china stirred it up (7) 3 Frosted diamonds given to
daughter (4)
4 Tree animal with head
beneath trunk (5,8) 5 Heavenly guide
interpreting apt roles (4,4) 6 Once more it's a profit (5) 7 Old record player to
irritate (6)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 A little hungry (7)
5 Large shrimp (5)
8 Long narrow S American
country (5)
9 Deliverance (7)
10 Touch down in a plane (4) 11 Individual (8) 13 Gale-resistant jacket (11) 17 First to arrive (8) 19 High-class (4)
21 Army unit (7)
22 1979 sci-fi thriller starring
Sigourney Weaver (5) 23 Dry and powdery (5) 24 Apprentice (7)
DOWN
1 Chutney-like relish (6) 2 Famous Tuscan wine
region (7)
3 Chilled (4)
4 Conker tree (5,8) 5 Celestial body used in
navigation (4,4)
6 A further time (5) 7 Annoy (someone) (6)
JUNGE – KOTTNAUER, PRAGUE 1942
Faced with a sacrificial attack, Black has tried 1...f5
How did White reply?
Solution at the bottom of this page