THE TAKE-A-BREAK CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1. If lute is broken, it’s useless (6) 4. A practical joker is
quite relaxed (2,4) 9. Showing what the activists are doing? (13) 10. Observe, my boy, what the spectator does (5,2) 11. One to scratch from the tournament alone (5) 12. In pubs, the head on the bitter producing pointed remarks (5) 14. Work hard to produce
new plants (5) 18. One goes to the East
to join up (5) 19. One in various papers to provide somebody with information (7) 21. Fail to keep a promise to destroy a single weapon (5,4,4) 22. Dislike being told to go for a second time (6) 23. One who refuses to allow a standard device (6)
DOWN
1. Instrument that
makes a racket (6) 2. Press to remain in disarray, but it’s not a permanent state (13) 3. They are connected with a feline, it’s said (5) 5. It’s used for making brown bread (7) 6. What the determined testator has! (1,4,2,3,3) 7. Gradually moving
towards the border (6) 8. A gem of a definite
weight (5) 13. Burglary is almost
shattering (5-2) 15. Move clumsily to
work in the forest (6) 16. Georgia in the South providing electoral advantages (5) 17. Offer to be a nurse (6) 20. Father’s getting a word of thanks for the food (5)
QUICK CLUES YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
Across
1. Stable (6) 4. Dupe (6) 9. Rebel (13) 10. Choice (7) 11. Passage (5) 12. Massage (5) 14. Disparage (5) 18. Crawl (5) 19. Tasteless (7) 21. Questioning
(13) 22. Higher (6) 23. Sport (6)
Down
1. Vie (6) 2. Surrounding
(13) 3. Dig (5) 5. Insulate (7) 6. Copy (13) 7. Mutilation (6) 8. Corset (5) 13. Calumniate (7) 15. Handwriting (6) 16. Piece of turf (5) 17. Handsome man
(6) 20. Wager (5)
QUICK Across
1 Mother tongue 7 Solar 8 Crime 9 See 10 Influence 11 Harems 12 Annexe 15 Treadmill 17 Ova 18 Evita 19 Irish 21 Ugly
duckling
Down
1 Mad as a
hatter 2 Eel 3 Tariff 4 Nocturnal 5 Union 6 Degenerating 7 Smear 10 Immediacy 13 Epoch 14 Milieu 16 Eking 20 Ink
CRYPTIC Across
1 Playing a part 7 Copra 8 Admit 9 Eye 10 Orphanage 11 Forage 12 Attest 15 Intensify 17 Tar 18 Tends 19 Tutor 21 Prison
warder
Down
1 Place of
birth 2 Imp 3 Grasps 4 Peasantry 5 Rumba 6 Street trader 7 Cheer 10 Organists 13 Enter 14 Bitten 16 Tenor 20 Tea