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Cryptic crossword #06

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Across

1 Ruin trick by setter and radio presenter (7)

5 Bit of broccoli causing child’s complaint (5)

8 Ancient human’s shelter is nothing next to mobile home (9)

9 Grandmother’s bread (3)

10 Copy note on audio device (5)

12 Elevated trendy fruit (7)

13 Singer, retired footballer and hotel workers seen by drunk? (4,9)

15 Number inside, for example, the queen (7)

17 Time to approach first icy rock (5)

19 Carbon-neutral enclosure of iron or stone, say (3)

20 Halo seen on insect and male cat (9)

22 Surrender produce (5)

23 Unmatched quality in dispatch put on hold (7)

Down

1 Fashion mass communication device (5)

2 Operated recklessly and naively at first (3)

3 Very backward sound of reaping hook or hammer, say (7)

4 Restive banter excited spineless creatures (13)

5 They help to see traffic markers (5)

6 Rare earth element has city ordering manhunt (9)

7 Preserve primates for starters (7)

11 Maybe platypus adapted meme, or not (9)

13 What’s given up online? Look closely around four acres (7)

14 Supporters replace leader with hot computer experts (7)

16 Dash out of country might make you sweat (5)

18 Muscular tiger has tail removed by journalist (5)

21 Hail headless insects! (3)

Answers and the next quick crossword next week.

 

Quick Crossword #30

Answers

Across
1  stargate
5  psyche
10  l wave
11  macintosh
12  technical
13  nadir
14  preamp
15  aurochs
18  quantum
20  leakey
22  a-type
24  rail fence
25  oestrogen
26  u-boat
27  stigma
28  azotemia

Down
1  solute
2  araucaria
3  green-tao theorem
4  time cop
6  san andreas fault
7  cloud
8  etherise
9  scilla
16  clean room
17  squamous
19  mirage
20  leibniz
21  bertha
23  yoshi

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