Portsmouth News

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. They indicate the strength of current potential (4)

8. Poet has to yearn for a companion (10)

9. What the organ pedal will produce – see below (8)

10. It's kind of right for this to apply to matter for printing (4)

12. Sidetrack – not how rail travellers will go! (2-4)

14. What is woven to make a red hat (6)

15. Evil influences one wards off all round (6)

17. A breakaway group or a certain part of a country's economy (6)

18. It will hold up any blooming thing (4)

19. Present-day choice by which the child may be taken in (8)

21. Gear washer needed (10)

22. Part of the ship to turn upside down (4)

Down

2. I'm repulsed so by mixed-up, stingy woman-hater (10)

3. Strip of wood not quite big enough for roofing material (4)

4. Not related to descriptio­n of silent bells, we hear (6)

5. Adopt some pretence to influence the feelings (6)

6 and 17 Dn. Shocking demonstrat­ions of elemental power (8,6)

7. State holding western influence! (4)

11. Noted example of what can come from a fine troop (10)

13. No mitten in this style can have a soothing effect (8)

16. A flight that will raise you from ground level (6)

17. See 6 Down

18. Only a single person can perform it (4)

20. It may go into battle, but not full of water! (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Prospect (4)

8. Hateful (10)

9. Region (8)

10. Excursion (4)

12. Blend (6)

14. Overstep (6)

15. Kind deed (6)

17. Intelligen­t (6)

18. Disorder (4)

19. Ratify (8)

21. Excessive (10)

22. Stop (4)

Down

2. Scare (10)

3. Delay action (4)

4. Beginner (6)

5. Small (6)

6. Speck (8)

7. Rip (4)

11. Without incident (10)

13. Technical vocabulary (8)

16. Lay waste (6)

17. Inexperien­ced (6)

18. Debatable (4)

20. Verve (4)

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