QUICK CLUES:

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Agreement prepared for

conveyance, we hear (4) 3. Sidesman? (8)

8. A complete defeat for the

rabble (4)

9. Taking part in industrial

unrest is attractive (8)

11. Frustrated – having been

relieved of office? (12) 13. Trim the conifer (6)

14. Some soured rum punch

put back to kill (6)

17. Would their activities end

with a mating call? (5,7) 20. Deliberate destruction of

red coins (8)

21. Convivial association for

the driver (4)

22. Opposed changing into a

dress tie (8) 23. What artists do to create an

attraction (4)

Down

1. A delightful place to be is in a

public promenade (8)

2. The kind of weight for one that

sails into the fight! (7)

4. Gesture that produces court

proceedings (6)

5. Describing the sort of figure that is eternally intriguing? (10)

6. Something that sticks in the

back (5)

7. Not far from endless

darkness (4)

10. Unearthly clothing to fit in the

gaps (10)

12. Weapon to reach the other side

of the arch (8)

15. One who stays permanently healthy in revolutionary uprising (7)

16. A field of activity for a

planet (6)

18. Among the smooth and silvery

1. Helps (4) palms (5)

3. Scatter (8)

19. Mark shows unending alarm (4) 8. Sort (4) 9. Beginning (8) 11. Orders (12)

13. Essence (6)

14. Eraser (6)

17. Sweat (12)

20. Dexterously (8) 21. Irritation (4) 22. Pleases (8)

23. Minus (4)

Across

Down

1. Achieved (8) 2. Lay down (7) 4. Whole (6) 5. Special (10) 6. Rule (5) 7. Brink (4)

10. Objecting (10) 12. Ditches (8)

15. Fragile (7)

16. Requisitioned

quarters (6)

18. Incorporate as

member (5)

19. Attack (4)