QUICK CLUES

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Seals in small

shacks (5)

5 Hard to love

dilapidated pigsty (5)

9 Tin from Tuscany (3)

10 Business rated

incorrectly (5)

11 Fruit that’s round, as

it happens (5)

12 Catch in one trap (3)

13 Hardly returning

ton (3)

14 Some colour about

desktop (3)

16 Voice, for

example (3)

18 Serious-sounding

fellow (6)

21 Flank dies away (4)

23 Bit of lethal force (4)

26 Quiet journeys by

families of cats (6)

29 Each experience has

it (3)

31 That woman’s in the

right (3)

32 In favour of

compromise (3)

34 A turn previously (3)

36 Strange to send a

line (5)

37 Five get omen about

poison (5)

38 Rodent in crate (3)

39 Reportedly spotted

setting (5)

40 A bad scare for the

shrubs (5)

DOWN

Cakes or small ice creams (6)

Harold only gets saintly sign (4)

3 Joined a team (6)

4 Severe at the

back (5)

5 Delivers manual

workers (5)

6 Some poetry from

Roderick (3)

7 Have tsetse flies surrounded animal attendents? (4)

8 Tramp’s

companion? (4)

15 Eastern lake is

creepy (5) 1 2

Falling over everything (3)

19 More polite with

salesman (3) 1 Closes (5)

20 Definitely an 5 Slum (5)

article (3) 9 Container (3)

22 First person 10 Deal (5)

regarding anger (3) 11 Dull green (5)

24 Wish for a steeple (6) 12 Mesh (3)

25 Overlooks 13 Negative (3)

anteriors (6) 14 Colour (3)

27 River heron becomes 16 Utter (3)

awkward (5) 18 Man’s name (6)

28 Attorney takes sheep 21 Edge (4)

to play (5) 23 50 per cent (4)

29 Don’t answer, just 26 Groups of lions (6)

overtake (4) 29 For every (3)

30 Vera managed to 31 Pronoun (3)

dance (4) 32 Expert (3)

33 Bring up the back (4) 34 In the past (3)

35 Facts in 36 Extraterrestrial (5) emergency (3) 37 Toxin (5)

38 Traitor (3)

39 Act section (5)

40 Types of tree (5) 17

ACROSS DOWN

1 Cream tea parts (6)

2 Ring of light (4)

3 Merged (6)

4 Harsh (5)

5 Body parts (5)

6 Verse (3)

7 Animal doctors (4)

8 Titled woman (4)

15 Supernatural (5)

17 Everyone (3)

19 Agent (3)

20 Common word (3)

22 Anger (3)

24 Hope (6)

25 Facades (6)

27 European waterway (5)

28 Crisis (5)

29 Elapse (4)

30 Enthuse (4)

33 Posterior (4)

35 Information (3)