Double crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
6, 20 dn & 14 Ac.
What the angler
who seeks
flattery is doing?
(7,3,11)
7. Checks the organ
controls (5)
9. Wretched word
of apology (5)
10. Lost dials I’m
returning (7)
12. Charts repay
rearranging for
this exploratory
body (6-5)
14. See 6 Across
18. Depict the
harbour with
a shaft of light
behind (7)
19. A fish which is
put on ice (5)
21. He’ll see you’re
not out of place
at the function
(5)
22. Workmen in the club (7)
Down
1. He’s under-age to be a coal
producer ,we hear (5)
2. See 16 Down
3. Gain knowledge – what
writers need may be found
within (3)
4. Suitable name for star actress
(6)
5. They are bound to support
the injured members (7)
8. Loading boat having less
cargo? (7)
11. First, second or third, maybe,
making a disturbance in
spoken examination (7)
13. Nobody plays with him (7)
15. To dawdle,as one who makes
earthenware (6)
16 & 2 Dn. Assuming command
and withstanding the attack
(6,6)
17. The Tempest showing some
of Caliban’s tormentors (5)
20. See 6 Across
QUICK CLUES:
Across
6. Custodian (7)
7. Opinions (5)
9. Inclination (5)
10. Enslave (7)
12. Jumping insect (11)
14. Understood (11)
18. Boring tool (7)
19. Adhere (5)
21. Expel (5)
22. Despoil (7)
Down
1. Cunning (5)
2. Impede (6)
3. Enemy (3)
4. Accident (6)
5. Jersey (7)
8. To charm (7)
11. Shuns (7)
13. Commend (7)
15. Lessen (6)
16. Stretch (6)
17. Performed (5)
20. Beer (3)
YEsterday’s answers
DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 1 Work to rule; 7 Scrap;
8 Stays up; 10 Retailer; 11 Toss; 13 Nailed;
15 Custom; 17 Maps; 18 Felonies; 21
Risotto; 22 Ranee; 23 Dead letter .Down:
1 Worst; 2 Repaired; 3 Tastes; 4 Rear; 5
Lash out; 6 Astronomer; 9 Postmaster;
12 Autocrat; 14 Impasse; 16 Begone; 19
Inner; 20 Stud.
Quick: Across: 1 Adjudicate; 7 Cross;
8 Unsound; 10 Entangle 11 Wisp; 13
Thrust; 15 Rotten; 17 Ally; 18 Palpable; 21
Expound; 22 Attic; 23 Repentance.Down:
1 About; 2 Justness; 3 Double; 4 Cast;
5 Tourist; 6 Accentuate 9 Dependence;
12 Complain; 14 Relapse; 16 Bandit; 19
Bathe; 20 Mute.