Crossword

Published on Friday 20 November 2009 10:14

Today's puzzle.

Cryptic puzzle

Across

1. Get under a bouncer and get no runs (4)

3. Shocked, having been in front at the beginning (8)

9. Observe the ruler looking (7)

10. A profit once more (5)

11. Not a grand instrument! (7,5)

13. One exhibiting some water (6)

15. Find a Moroccan port with an incomplete diagram somehow (6)

17. Run away and get a liking for air travel (4,2,6)

20. A girl could be wrong (5)

21. Warn about auction (7)

22. The family that sends out of charity (8)

23. They may bite as an afterthought (4)

Down

1. I guess I'd change into camouflage (8)

2. Find not guilty? That's obvious! (5)

4. Pantyhose and shirt out of sight (6)

5. Speaking out concerning literature? (7,5)

6. A lender becoming erudite (7)

7. Finished some of the awkward ones? (4)

8. Bachelor who doesn't buy LPs? (6,6)

12. Makes believe before nurses (8)

14. Vain, too, about round of applause (7)

16. Corfe's own armed services? (6)

18. Wrestlers always get to them (5)

19. What a dog may do around tree trunks? (4)

Quick puzzle

Across

1. Stack (4)

3. Execrable (8)

9. Pair (7)

10. Beat (5)

11. Rawness (12)

13. Container (6)

15. Cunning (6)

17. Vaguely (12)

20. Apart (5)

21. Adolescent (7)

22. Enjoyment (8)

23. Transaction (4)

Down

1. Get back (8)

2. Near (5)

4. Blithe (6)

5. Impartial (12)

6. Entreat (7)

7. Act (4)

8. Totality (12)

12. Excellently (4,4)

14. Dawn (7)

16. Harsh (6)

18. Dodge (5)

19. Moist (4)

Thursday's solutions

CRYPTIC – Across: 6 Rake-off; 7 Broad; 9 Entry; 10 Tidings; 12 Third degree; 14 Break the law; 18 Compass; 19 Tries; 21 Legal; 22 Royalty.

Down:1 Taunt; 2 Search; 3 Aft; 4 Trying; 5 Laughed; 8 Fiddler; 11 Protest; 13 Crooked; 15 Appear; 16 Airman; 17 Rests; 20 Low.

QUICK – Across:6 Killjoy; 7 Bound; 9 Shoal; 10 Flummox; 12 Merchandise; 14 Malevolence; 18 Egghead; 19 Proof; 21 Rigid; 22 Crooked.

Down:1 Sight; 2 Cleave; 3 Coy; 4 Doomed; 5 Endorse; 8 Bloated; 11 Scholar; 13 Languid; 15 Ethnic; 16 Carrot; 17 Joker; 20 Dry.