QUICK CLUES YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

Across

1. Sit (4)

3. Guarantee (8)

8. Defeat (4)

9. Hostile (8)

11. Small items of dress (12)

13. Sally (6)

14. Accumulate (6)

17. Baby-carriage (12)

20. Conspiracy (8)

21. Soon (4)

22. Calmness (8)

23. Tidings (4)

Down

1. Buy (8)

2. Sleep (7)

4. Yearly (6)

5. Tumbledown (10)

6. More pleasant (5)

7. Shout (4)

10. Itch (10)

12. Position (8)

15. Entourage (7)

16. Sudden (6)

18. Penetrate (5)

19. Prejudice (4)

QUICK Across

1 Affectation

9 Venison

10 Crimp

11 Nylon

12 Outline

13 Ulster

15 Ordeal

18 Leakage

20 Licit

22 Tempo

23 Shampoo

24 Fragmentary

Down

2 Final

3 Essence

4 Tendon

5 Tacit

6 Orifice

7 Eventuality

8 Appellation

14 Stammer

16 Reliant

17 Lessee

19 Among

21 Caper

CRYPTIC Across

1 Catch-phrase

9 Play-pen

10 Chain

11 Inept

12 Mascara

13 Greens

15 Tea-set

18 Offence

20 Early

22 Rural

23 Manilla

24 Meaningless

Down

2 Awake

3 Capstan

4 Panama

5 Races

6 Sea-bass

7 Springboard

8 Infantryman

14 Enforce

16 Eternal

17 Herman

19 Nylon

21 Rills