YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

DOUBLE CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 7 Enacts; 8 Capped; 10 Tumbler; 11 Terse; 12 Rink; 13 Avail; 17 Feint; 18 Weep; 22 Tread; 23 Anytime; 24 Chains; 25 Reward.

Down: 1 Heaters; 2 Raiment; 3 Still; 4 Wagtail; 5 Apart; 6 Edges; 9 Provençal; 14 Dead end; 15 Pelican; 16 Spreads; 19 Stock; 20 Sepal; 21 Lyres.

COMPACT CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Active, 4 Squeak, 9 Extinct, 10 Tutor, 11 Djinn, 12 Dormant, 13 Aberystwyth, 18 Volcano, 20 Lupin, 22 Swing, 23 Nursery, 24 Cannon, 25 Smudge. DOWN; 1 Agenda, 2 Tutsi, 3 Vintner, 5 Qatar, 6 Extract, 7 Karate, 8 At a discount, 14 Bullion, 15 Wolfram, 16 Ovisac, 17 Enzyme, 19 Aggro, 21 Plead.

CODEWORD: 1=F, 2=Q, 3=Z, 4=P, 5=M, 6=T, 7=C, 8=B, 9=J, 10=H, 11=K, 12=L, 13=Y, 14=U, 15=R, 16=E, 17=A, 18=N, 19=X, 20=I, 21=D, 22=V, 23=W, 24=S, 25=O, 26=G

MINIQUIZ: 1Gnu;2 Poseidon; 3 Shorthand; 4 Benjamin Disraeli; 5 1944; 6 Georgian; 7 Infinity; 8 Gateshead; 9 William Golding; 10 Africa

WORD SPIRAL: 1 Feed; 2 Deaf; 3 Fern; 4 Neon; 5 Need; 6 Debt; 7 Toes; 8 Sift; 9 Trio; 10 Ouzo; 11 Odds; 12 Sobs; 13 Song; 14 Gala; 15 Adds; 16 Slow.

KEYWORD: Snowdon

CLOCKWORD:

1 Reason, 2 Intern, 3 Column, 4 Harden, 5 Amazon, 6 Ribbon, 7 Dampen, 8 Yeoman, 9 Autumn, 10 Tartan, 11 Enjoin, 12 Saturn

NOVELIST: Richard Yates

WORD WHEEL: SURPRISED