CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

Silent thanks for tic returning (5) Angry sign (5) Shelter from sleet (3) Criminal lout upset a wife (6) Terribly neat feature of Sicily (4) A crawler, when quiet (3) Team’s weapon supply (7) Toy hens turn out to be best policy (7) British artist in underwear (3) Inclination to design pram (4) 20 Emphasis on dialect (6) 23 Second person to sound

like a sheep (3) 24 Ye old form of singing (5) 25 At no time was nerve lost (5) 1

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DOWN

Novelist had ham story rewritten (6,5) Sick of villagers (3) Drink of character, say (3) Loud note played outside many times (5) Tiny amount of trifle (5,6) We’re off to get a jug (4) Stopped around summit (3) Animal in glasses (3) Notice mole (3) Hardly crazy wanderer (5) Try a new dish (4) Last word from the cricket? (3) 21 Swindle prisoner (3) 22 Copper gets point

of signal (3)

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