TAKE- A- BREAK CROSSWORD
Across 1. Unauthorised absence
(6,5) 9. Drinking vessel (3) 10. Powerlessness (9) 11. Jog with the elbow (5) 13. Serious (7) 14. Interior (6) 16. Fully-attended meeting
(6) 18. Organise (7) 19. Dress feathers (5) 20. North Africans (9) 21. Beverage (3) 22. Gentry (11) Down 2. Floor covering (3) 3. Innocent (5) 4. Occur (6) 5. Captivate (7) 6. Taking revenge (9) 7. Liberated (11) 8. Money-raising match
(11) 12. Warship (9) 15. Designates (7) 17. Smoothly, in music (6) 19. Difficult question (5) 21. Facial twitch (3) 2. Bird coming from the north (3) 3. Private lines (5) 4. Fixed price fastened on the line (6) 5. Positioned the canvas and weighed
anchor (3,4) 6. Wasted away when a diet came unstuck!
(9) 7. Barcelona, for example, can be found in
Trinidad (4,2,5) 8. Managing to get through a boring job (11) 12. Could it be a training exercise at the
shooting-range? (4-5) 15. Attacks by southern confederates (7) 17. One stupid enough to reveal a bit of
secret information (6) 19. Boxed (5) 21. This will hold a plant – or shoot (3) QUICK Across: 1 Push; 3 Prospect; 9 Overall; 10 Paper; 11 Humanitarian; 13 Settle; 15 Cinema; 17 Narrowminded; 20 Rondo; 21 Touring; 22 Overseer; 23 Skin. Down: 1 Prophesy; 2 Steam; 4 Relate; 5 Supercilious; 6 Expiate; 7 Tarn; 8 Vainglorious; 12 Cardigan; 14 Trainee; 16 Swathe; 18 Drink; 19 Trio. CRYPTIC Across: 1 Some; 3 Whistler; 9 Uniform; 10 Adorn; 11 Dressing-room; 13 Outlay; 15 Cartel; 17 Landingplace; 20 Odour; 21 Estuary; 22 Evensong; 23 Tire. Down: 1 Sound-box; 2 Maine; 4 Homing; 5 Stair-carpets; 6 Lookout; 7 Rank; 8 Low standards; 12 Aldehyde; 14 Tea-rose; 16 Andean; 18 Amati; 19 Cole.