The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Cryptic Crossword
Both sets of clues fit both grids
ACROSS
5 Belfries, variety of outstanding (3-6)
8 Mutated marine flyers (6)
9 Shout out with pain, being cowardly (6)
10 Article you and I dread (3)
11 Discourages five hundred relatives (6) 13 Turn her wood and make a new form (6)
15 No person at all holds a piece of music (6)
18 Sitcom cloak spaced out, say (2-2-2)
20 Roseanne carries water (3)
21 A revolutionary leader leaves one state for another (6) 22 Unable to make out cloudy area (6)
23 Material for one with a seat, to recline when out and about (9)
DOWN
1 Opera for mechanics? (6)
2 Regions around the north stadiums (6)
3 Soft coat for sportsman (6)
4 Old prime minister keeping the left in condition (6)
6 Avoids law-breaking rebuttal (9)
7 Jerry’s doorway to Cornish village (5-4)
12 Bird seen among the multitude (3)
14 Priest a believer at heart (3)
16 Guarantee the beast is by the river (6)
17 Take to mean problem in choppy sea (6)
18 Cope with composer out loud (6)
19 Challenge and kick out of bed? (6)