YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS

DOUBLE CROSSWORD: Cryptic: Across: 1 Warm; 8 On the radio; 9 At the bar; 10 Pity; 12 Jejune; 14 Sunday; 15 Easter; 17 Day off; 18 Hear; 19 Contract; 21 Second mate; 22 Lamb. Down: 2 All the same; 3

C Moth; 4 Stable; 5 Debris; 6 Rampancy; 7 Bony; 11 Traffic jam; 13 Ulterior; 16 Recede; 17 Denial; 18 Host; 20 Reel.

COMPACT CROSSWORD ACROSS: 7 Please, 8 Coming, 9 Bard, 10 Crannies, 11 Assign, 12 Loaded, 14 Ballad, 17 Cavern, 19 Labrador, 21 Cool, 22 Detail, 23 Sitter. DOWN; 1 Clears, 2 Mandrill, 3 Deacon, 4 Scrawl, 5 Omen, 6 Annexe, 13 Advocate, 15 Anadem, 16 Doddle, 17 Caruso, 18 Rioted, 20 Roam.

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

MINIQUIZ: 1 Palindrome; 2 Two; 3 John Major; 4 Salvation Army; 5 A rodent; 6 Salem; 7 Majorca; 8 Sherry; 9 Siena; 10 Portugal

WORD SPIRAL: 1 Legs; 2 Stew; 3 Wash; 4 Hype; 5 Evil; 6 Late; 7 Exam; 8 Mend; 9 Dome; 10 Epic; 11 Cool; 12 Lays; 13 Stub; 14 Bend; 15 Dosh; 16 Hard. KEYWORD: Murdoch

CLOCKWORD:

1 Rubber, 2 Onager, 3 Gander, 4 Endear, 5 Ranker, 6 Fodder, 7 Either, 8 Dither, 9 Editor, 10 Rafter, 11 Eclair, 12 Repair

CELEBRITY: Roger Federer

WORD WHEEL: OBJECTION