KAKURO

FILL in the blank squares of the grid using only the numbers 1 to 9, without repeating any number in any line of blank squares. The lines must be filled in with numbers which add up to the total in the shaded box at the top or beginning of each line. A nu

ACROSS

1 Picture Clue 5 For a start, Google’s a sticky mess (3) 6 Star kid, reportedly (3) 7 Picture Clue 10 Illness said to fly past (3) 11 Sell out of Hollandaise sauce for American (7) 12 It will be won back presently (3) 13 Picture Clue 16 Possesses, with a small part (3) 17 Obliged to pay nothing to us subjects (3) 18 Picture Clue

DOWN

1 Picture Clue 2 Criminal group of hooligan goons (4) 3 It’s leaf-curl, sucker! (4) 4 Picture Clue 5 Picture Clue 8 Ruffian expressing happiness (5) 9 Picture Clue 14 ‘Food’ fit for a friar? (4) 15 Hare ran round to be flyer — that doesn’t! (4) Yesterday’s solution ACROSS: 1 Masochistic. 5 Submits. 8 Ideal. 9 Quasi. 10 Essay. 12 Idyll. 14 Replete. 15 Legal tender. DOWN: 1 Machine tool. 2 Susie. 3 Testa. 4 Cauliflower. 6 Belly up. 7 Inquire. 11 Sprog. 13 Yield.