Quick Crossword

Both sets of clues fit both grids

ACROSS

1 Cardigan and jumper combination (7) Waterlogged (5) Singing group (5) Regular oval (7) Lacking in flavour (7) Handle, brandish (5) Sell on overseas markets (6) Compel, browbeat (6) Release your grip (3,2) Taken for granted (7) Abounding (7) Senior (5) Quick wash (5) Be ahead of (7) 5 8

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1 Perceptible to the sense of touch (7) Golf clubs (5) Tool for removing ice from windscreens (7) Modish, in vogue (6) At a position further down (5) Pre-uni break (3,4) Give way (5) Decorative design (7) Offensive to standards of modesty and decency (7) Sign the back of (7) End a phone call (4,2)

At some future time (5)

Black or green cocktail fruit (5) Gnat-like fly (5) 2 3

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18 19 21 ACROSS 1 5 8 9 10

Cold meat set before the Queen, then scramble (7)

Grieve when poet wakes, say (5)

Reign over African river (5)

Cecil is removing winter spikes (7)

Ten drunk on Chardonnay, perhaps, embrace (7) 11 12 14 18 20 22 Message from head of embassy brought with post (5)

Hear person tasting drink (6)

Artist and arrow maker taking the floor (6)

Still have Egyptian leader in desert (5)

Such material makes wimp sober (4-3)

Occasionally almost devoured newspaper (2,5)

DOWN

1 Do put on noisy mammal’s hide (7)

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Awful gnats causing worry! (5) Trio rub out dish (7)

Stepped up attack around south-east (6)

Corn sounds like a puzzle, visually (5)

Free ale, shun rum! (7)

Alan’s having surgery on his nose? (5)

Give up holding up ten or five (7)

Kitchen stew to coagulate (7)

Payment for residents of Buckingham Palace (7)

Place in southern Rhodes, say (6)

Put down drink without starting (5)

Language in operetta millions speak (5)

Doctor, say, has small grounds (5)