TAKE A BREAK

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Horrible: evil perhaps (4) 4 Pack animal's tendon

problem (8)

8 Loveliness in Mirabeau

type (6)

9 Periodical food for

chatterer (6)

10 View answer one doctor

tutted about (8)

12 One trapped in race wreck

(4)

13 Extend banquet (6) 15 Beat time to welcome

Rugby School skipper? (6) 17 Bargain fasteners returned (4)

19 Bypass or roundabout? (44)

21 Mess, caught in Sofia,

sloshed (6)

22 Commercial opening is

coming (6)

23 Predecessor can store

bananas (8)

24 Cat fight starting late (4)

DOWN

2 Still in container terminal

(5)

3 Slippery individual sacking

ninety (7)

4 Ridicule Fawkes? (3) 5 Feeling less clear about famous residence (6,3) 6 Time for Left and Right to

drink beer (5)

7 Vegetable conveys very

good impression (7) 11 Paint Dean Court ground

(9)

14 Writer is back on benefit

(7)

16 Straighten out a French

composer (7)

18 Former European getting

stick (5)

20 Tuna chopped by son for

relatives (5) 22 Atmosphere in Broadstairs

(3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Despicable (4)

4 Nerve tissue mass (8) 8 Attractiveness (6) 9 Hoarder (6)

10 Posture (8)

12 Destroy (4)

13 Elaborate meal (6) 15 Delinquent (6)

17 Cut with scissors (4) 19 Orbital route (4-4) 21 Ludicrous failure (6) 22 Pre-Christmas season (6) 23 Antecedent (8)

24 Whip (4)

DOWN

2 Non-reactive (5) 3 Evasive (7)

4 Tent rope (3)

5 Prime Minister's house

(6,3)

6 Alcoholic drink (5)

7 Viewpoint (7)

11 First paint layer (9) 14 Allowance after work (7) 16 Disentangle (7)

18 Glue (5)

20 Parents' sisters (5) 22 Broadcast (3)