CRYPTIC CLUES

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

CRYPTIC - ACROSS: 1 Pepper 4 Absorb 9 Nouveau 10 On ice 11 Habit

12 Enemies 13 Scant 15 Bilge 20 Traumas 22 Ether 24 Cargo 25 Amasses

26 Ordain 27 Stayed DOWN: 1 Poncho 2 Plumb 3 Everton 5 Broke 6 Opining 7 Breast 8 Tuber 14 Charred 16 Inexact 17 Stucco 18 Islam 19 Erased 21 Maori 23 Hasty

QUICK - ACROSS: 1 Unroll 4 Spades 9 Jacuzzi 10 Puppy 11 Siren

12 Harpoon 13 Revel 15 Edged 20 Close by 22 Lapse 24 Arias 25 Armband

26 Singly 27 Warmer DOWN: 1 Unjust 2 Recur 3 Lozenge 5 Paper 6 Deplore 7 Saying 8 Pithy 14 Emotion 16 Dilemma 17 Oceans 18 Byway 19 Lender

21 Easel 23 Psalm

ACROSS

1 Mountain expert’s turn of phrase (6)

4 Distributes thin papers with no heading (6)

8 Shelter from sleet (3)

9 Ray’s movement alarms bee (5,4)

11 Got rid of the garden building? (4)

12 Place to eat a flapjack? (5,3)

15 Green tea’s brewed by young people (9)

18 Grace ill, suffering a bad reaction (8)

19 Slightly open, pulled back to see Indian prince (4)

21 Use a flail in front of worn-out gateway (9)

23 Follow poodle, for example (3)

24 I won during artist’s festival (6)

25 Trapped by routine in a Turin settlement (2,1,3)

DOWN

1 Sensational news story produced by something hitting water? (6)

2 Primary supernatural being (9)

3 Become boring in Nepal lately (4)

5 Richard caught in tangled nets, in trouble (8) 6 Employ some famous entertainers (3)

7 75 per cent of Mexican hat is dark (6) 10 Romanians struggling in this republic (3,6) 13 Spectator to get up in tumbledown byre (9) 14 Public relations is involved in genuine act of retaliation (8)

16 Lad set about finding type of peanuts? (6) 17 Anything following cold is got by infection (6) 20 Need to organise Biblical garden (4) 22 Somewhat harrowing argument (3)