CHALLENGE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 New place never achieves popularity (10)

8 Award for a zero mark? (5)

9 Extend a term of imprisonment (7)

10 Crime of corrupt senator (7)

11 Superior kind of cut (5)

12 Lobbies for yes perhaps (6)

14 The bench is alight (6)

17 Scales need some calibration (5)

19 To succeed it must follow her in first (7)

21 Found on a billiard table it may be used for a rest (7)

22 Shopkeepers hope to make it once more (5)

23 A number copy a restriction (10)

DOWN

2 Hardest part of the garden to cultivate (7)

3 Virtuous maybe but losing out to harmful influence (5)

4 What is wrong in a record being beaten? (6)

5 Foster may run true to form (7)

6 Point to organist’s control in bar (5)

7 Man not getting up for a dance (10)

8 Unfit so ousted (3,2,5)

13 A matter-of-fact doctrine is dividing the kingdom (7)

15 Rent row causes a storm (7)

16 Bird left in a snare (6)

18 He is a pound out on reflection (5)

20 The warmth gets right into the centre (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 To silence with amazement (6,4)

8 Intellectual capacity (5)

9 Very large sum of money (7)

10 Put at risk (7)

11 Literary or artistic style (5)

12 Saturate (6) 14 Intensify (4,2)

17 A slip (5)

19 A detail (7)

21 Learned (7)

22 Instruct (5)

23 Something unpleasant to accept (6,4)

DOWN

2 Trudge wearily (7)

3 Deeper (5)

4 Embrace (6)

5 Strictly honourable (7)

6 Name used for a bear (5)

7 State of extreme excitement (5,5)

8 Course leading nowhere (5,5)

13 Live in mutual tolerance (7)

15 Hold good (7)

16 Become motionless through fear (6)

18 Vertical (5)

20 Become interested (3,2)

Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles.