CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Gasp at magic dragon? (4)
4. Nice cities heard pleasant things (8)
8. Happy around lax group of famous people (6)
9. Slid over to be unemotional (6)
10. Evert, twisted bra from part of spine (8)
12. Love god’s sore back (4)
13. Rodent turns from celebrity (4)
15. Matador’s cry is a little violent (3)
16. Slash left out of band (4)
17. Before 11 mother put on long dress (4)
19. Break or secure useful supply (8)
21. Bring to an end, or annoy! (4,2)
22. Slice up on right of heirlooms (6)
23. It causes a reaction when feline put on a list, we’re told (8)
24. Sketched Ms Barrymore? (4)
DOWN
2. Turn to herb, it’s a customary practice! (5)
3. Compliment on how your tummy looks on a diet? (7)
4. Five leave Navy? No! (3)
5. Can tastes shift for Spanish instruments? (9)
6. Steak one given after TB (1-4)
7. Fabulously storied journalists (7)
11. New boy and I accept graph and life story (9)
14. Sinatra troubled Russian empress (7)
16. Al eaten by sea creature that’s foul and repulsive (7)
18. At home aid sent back to country (5)
20. Bike in a circular pattern (5)
22. I left riot? Nonsense! (3)
SUDOKU
Fill in the blank squares with the numbers 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each smaller 3x3 block contains all the numbers from 1 to 9.
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ACROSS
1. Doha is there
4. Multitude, a … of choices
8. Chinese herbal medicine, … biloba
12. Fairy tale, The … Little Pigs
16. Bone of the upper leg
18. Playwrights or dramatists, eg
19. Using only one colour, a … design
