Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


7 January



Across

1Hide stones near people (10)
7Prophetic leader agrees to alter forecast (7)
8Weak father has to suffer (5)
10Two officers, one gun (4)
11No crop is damaged by this insect (8)
13A car, if taken to the continent? (6)
15A capital cigar (6)
17Sticky sweet? (8)
18Graduates get hard thump (4)
21Country, say (5)
22The real material? (7)
23Fruit in trees can change (10)

Down

1She will shortly show a hard exterior (5)
2A country I controlled (4)
3The tongue of a World War One field marshal (6)
4Diabolical elfin ran off (8)
5It may be a strain for a Russian empress (7)
6For seeing sights? (10)
9Perhaps I learn about money in a northern county (10)
12In a manner of speaking I'd see a mishap (8)
14Charter again set free? (7)
16A tree found in part of London (6)
19Cricket prize left after fire? (5)
20Principal sea (4)