CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Diagrammatic (9) 8. Pastry dish (3) 9. Whole number (5,6) 11. Emit (7) 12. Depart (5) 13. Baggage handler (6) 15. Steps (6)

17. Huge (5) 18. Invents (7) 20. Procession attendant (5-6) 22. Born (3) 23. Payment to ensure secrecy (4,5)

Down

2. Dove's call (3)

3. Vehicles (5)

4. Labourer (6)

5. Two lines of verse (7)

6. Performer (5,6)

7. Successors (9)

10. Insurer (11)

11. Repulsive (9)

14. Optical treatment (7)

16. Mythical figure (6)

19. Vapour (5)

21. Day before (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Diagrammatic form of

catechism (9)

8. Talkative bird that is

quiet to begin with (3)

9. Nought, for

example! (5,6)

11. Broadcast rated A.I.

perhaps (7)

12. Go away for a

holiday (5)

13. He can carry drink (6)

15. Steps inside? (6)

17. Big part of provincial

Argentina (5)

18. Cancels the signature

for the plans? (7)

20. Following page in the

marriage

ceremony (5-6)

22. Born in a famine,

evidently (3)

23. The price of

silence? (4,5)

Down

2. Sound of a dove and a

duck in company (3)

3. Agencies that inform

me before help comes

up (5)

4. Loiter perhaps, but he's

unlikely to! (6)

5. Short rhyme upheld by

Colet (7)

6. His role may be grand

or comic (5,6)

7. Ladies expected to

succeed (9)

10. Subscriber? (11)

11. It's distasteful, drive

back fast! (9)

14. It clears one's view - to

humbug? (7)

16. He was known for his

fairness (6)

19. Move the ship in haste

amid confusion (5)

21. Girl thieves lack this (3)