WEEKEND PUZZLER SOLUTIONS

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD: ACROSS: 1 Rock; 3 Sinister; 8 Laid; 9 Hang back; 11 Takeithe point; 13 Outfit; 14 Studio; 17 Face the music; 20 Seaboard; 21 Page; 22 Disperse; 23 Urge.

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DOWN: 1 Relation; 2 Cricket; 4 Images; 5 In good time; 6 Train; 7 Rake; 10 Strike home; 12 Concrete; 15 Despair; 16 Shorts; 18 Amass; 19 Used.

COMPACT CROSSWORD ONE

ACROSS: 7 Crib, 8 Aperture, 9 Knave, 10 Harness, 12 Raw, 13 Complicit, 16 Recapping, 17 Paw, 19 Ordains, 21 Civil, 23 Anaconda, 24 Leek.

DOWN: 1 Truncate, 2 Above, 3 Law, 4 Decamping, 5 Utensil, 6 Iris, 11 Component, 14 Imagined, 15 Balance, 18 Aisle, 20 Rank, 22 Saw.

COMPACT CROSSWORD TWO

ACROSS: 1 Cosy; 3 Calmness; 8 Neat; 9 Misnomer; 11 In good health; 13 Corner; 14 Finish; 17 All of a sudden; 20 Verbally; 21 Clue; 22 Dressing; 23 Less. DOWN: 1 Convince; 2 Stagger; 4 Alight; 5 Mendacious; 6 Emmet; 7 Sore; 10 Come to pass; 12 Thinness; 15 Indulge; 16 Call on; 18 Large; 19 Avid

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

MINIQUIZ: 1 Stockholm; 2 Larry Adler; 3 5 and 1; 4 Kneecap; 5 Sir Humphry Davy; 6 James I; 7 Adam; 8 Joe Davis; 9 The Quran; 10 Ethiopia

WORD SPIRAL: 1Push;2 Hint; 3 Toga; 4 Atom; 5 Mean; 6 Neat; 7 Teem; 8 Most; 9 Tank; 10 Kind; 11 Deal; 12 Lull; 13 Loaf; 14 Flea; 15 Ally; 16 Yeti..

KEYWORD: Matilda CLOCKWORD: 1 Tackle, 2 Hurdle, 3 Income, 4 Ermine, 5 Rotate, 6 Remove, 7 Yippee, 8 Humble, 9 Evolve, 10 Nettle, 11 Revise, 12 Yankee CELEBRITY: Thierry Henry