Double crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
7. Become tied
up in French
composer (5)
8. An ornament
attached to a
sound receiver
(3-4)
9. Hesitate on
moral grounds
- to prescribe
twenty grains?
(7)
10. Amalgamation
of several
companies
showing
confidence (5)
12. Acrimony sent
tribes crazy (10)
15. This provides a
foundation from
which one’s
bounds may be
extended (10)
18. Achieves a
sharper result, being not
quite upright (5)
19. Stern directors (7)
21. Article included among
pennies as an act of
contrition (7)
22. Motive for legal action (5)
Down
1. The hour is near at hand for
one who has this (5-5)
2. Each point comes to extreme
conclusion (5)
3. It’s a mistake to move on the
ice (4)
4. Object to being told to go
again? (6)
5. Relatives who are kept in
order (8)
6. We hear the girl employed is
ill-treated (7)
11. A teacher after a job is a
slave-driver! (4-6)
13. I’m adopting an attitude to
be prominent (8)
14. Men of the church, one hears,
are big boomers (7)
16. Store of fat? (6)
17. Some of the servicemen use
food cards (5)
20. Kind of yarn to cut off (4)
QUICK CLUES:
Across
7. Female relative (5)
8. Subterfuge (7)
9. N. African port (7)
10. Voracity (5)
12. Judges (10)
15. Workers’ association
(5,5)
18. Famous lover (5)
19. Shake (7)
21. Colonnade (7)
22. Coach (5)
Down
1. Teacher (10)
2. Danger (5)
3. Nil (4)
4. Zodiac sign (6)
5. Pouched animal (8)
6. Freedom (7)
11. Vanishes (10)
13. Art of oratory (8)
14. Cultivators (7)
16. Idea (6)
17. Diminish (5)
20. Consumes (4)
Yesterday’s answers
DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 1 Telegraph; 8 Act;
9 Secretaries; 11 Bounded; 12 Clean;
13 Cohere; 15 Stance; 17 Wails; 18
Hide-out; 20 Transmitter; 22 Ash; 23
Everybody.Down: 2 Eye; 3 Greed; 4
Awards; 5 Hair-cut; 6 Easternmost;
7 Stringent; 10 Caught in the; 11
Buckwheat; 14 Restate; 16 Chaste; 19
Daisy; 21 End.
Quick: Across: 1 Penetrate; 8 Owe;
9 Prohibition; 11 Betoken; 12 Tread;
13 Astral; 15 Deepen; 17 Donor; 18
Outrage; 20 Indifferent; 22 Sin; 23
Earnestly.Down: 2 Err; 3 Trick; 4 Aliens;
5 Epistle; 6 Contemplate; 7 Residence;
10 Outstanding; 11 Blandness; 14
Abridge; 16 Coffer; 19 There; 21 Nil.