Easy Cryptic Crossword from Simple Daily Puzzles 2020-01-13 (24/24 !!)
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1a Postponement causing aversion (7,3)
PUTTING OFF
Double definition, with putting off meaning both
postponement and causing aversion
7a The girl turned paler (7)
LIGHTER
Paler is the definition with turned as an anagram
indicator for the girl
8a Birds having fun (5)
LARKS
Double definition, with larks meaning having fun
and being a type of birds
10a Naval destroyer belonging to me (4)
MINE
Double definition with mine meaning both naval destroyer
and belonging to me
11a Grounds for having a coin sent out (8)
SEDIMENT
Grounds is the definition, with out as an indicator that a word for a coin (DIME) goes inside the word SENT: SE(DIME)NT
13a Making a scene, in which spirits might be produced (6)
SEANCE
Spirits might be produced is the definition, with
making as an anagram indicator for a
scene
15a See law broken by beast (6)
WEASEL
Beast is the definition, with broken as an
anagram indicator for see law
17a One who works with a will (8)
EXECUTOR
Cryptic definition; an executor works with a will
18a Poke gently with a stick (4)
PROD
Poke is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue:
P (gently, the music notation) + ROD
(a stick)
21a Student leader gets ice cream and cake (5)
SCONE
Cake is the definition, with the rest as a charades
clue: S (student leader, or first letter
of student) + CONE (ice
cream)
22a Tool observed by poor writer (7)
HACKSAW
Tool is the definition, with the rest as a charades clue:
HACK (poor writer) + SAW
(observed)
23a The strange transience of fruit (10)
NECTARINES
Fruit is the definition, with strange
as an anagram indicator for transience
1d Father backed a horse – he’s a heathen (5)
PAGAN
Heathen is the definition, with the rest as a
charades clue: PA (father) + GAN
(backed is a reversal indicator for NAG,
meaning horse)
2d Art finalist took in gallery (4)
TATE
Gallery is the definition, with the rest as a charades
clue: T (art finalist, or last letter of
art) + ATE (took in)
3d Serial set in the country (8)
ISRAEL
Country is the definition, with set as
an anagram indicator for serial
4d Swift traveller (8)
GULLIVER
Cryptic definition; Gulliver is the character in Gulliver’s
Travels by Jonathan Swift
5d Animals the queen worries about (7)
FERRETS
Animals is the definition, with about as an
indicator that ER (a bits and pieces clue for queen
goes into a word for FRETS: F(ER)RETS
6d Star models posing for great painters (3,7)
OLD MASTERS
Great painters is the definition, with posing
as an anagram indicator for star models
9d Become established in a Yorkshire town and an Ulster county (6,4)
SETTLE DOWN
Become established is the definition, with the rest as
a charades clue: SETTLE (a Yorkshire town) +
DOWN (an Ulster county)
12d Composer butchers composition (8)
SCHUBERT
Composer is the definition, with composition
as an anagram clue for butchers
14d Flower for one with false name (7)
ANEMONE
Flower is the definition, with the rest as a charades
clue: ANEM (false is an anagram indicator
for name) + ONE (one)
16d Medical officer getting the right parent (6)
MOTHER
Parent is the definition, with the rest as a charades
clue: MO (bits and pieces clue for medical officer)
+ THE (the) + R (bits and pieces
clue for right)
19d Strategems Rex employs (5)
RUSES
Strategems is the definition, with the rest as a charades
clue: R (a bits and pieces clue for Rex) +
USES (employs)
20d A religious image I study (4)
ICON
Religious image is the definition, with the rest as an
charades clue: I (I) + CON
(study)