CHALLENGE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Fastened by the driver (7)

4 After a drink Jack went

back to the dance (5)

7 Feel jealous of a minister

who lacks nothing (4)

8 Secret American resort (2,6) 10 Foreign settlement? (10)

12 Improvement that’s

needed in skyscrapers (6) 13 German doctor

returns in a cab (6)

15 Refuse to give credit? (10) 18 Wholly fair? Not by

a long way (4,4)

19 Country or Empire

without a politician (4)

20 Quick-firing motto (5)

21 Poet is reserved about

French female (7)

DOWN

1 It ends happily and

with relief (5)

2 It brings about a

military rising (8)

3 Mean to silence a

musician? (6)

4 Concerning a boy competent and sensible (10)

5 Carriage sounds cheap (4) 6 Sue is of use (7)

9 The preserve of the

motorist? (7,3)

11 Peculiar mixture of

ale and spice (8)

12 Unchanging habit (7)

14 Corrupt practices a

sailor employs (6)

16 All taken apart (5)

17 Key to hanging plant

fibre for weaving (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Body of supporters (7)

4 Group of eight (5)

7 Indolent (4)

8 Veteran (3-5)

10 Dazed and confused (5-5) 12 Compassionate (6)

13 Snow vehicle (6)

15 A genre of rock music (5,5) 18 Prosperous (8)

19 Read superficially (4)

20 Stratum (5)

21 No longer in existence (7)

DOWN

1 Non-rigid airship (5)

2 For the kitchen (8)

3 In abundance (6)

4 Isolated and exposed (3,2,1,4) 5 Docile and submissive (4)

6 From end to end (7)

9 Transition (10)

11 Erroneous (8)

12 Fine glassware (7)

14 Way of access (6)

16 Restriction (5)

17 City of Homeric legend (4)

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