Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


13 January



Across

1Postponement causing aversion (7,3)
7The girl turned paler (7)
8Birds having fun? (5)
10Naval destroyer belonging to me (4)
11Grounds for having a coin sent out (8)
13Making a scene, in which spirits might be produced (6)
15See law broken by beast (6)
17One who works with a will (8)
18Poke gently with a stick (4)
21Student leader gets ice cream and cake (5)
22Tool observed by poor writer (7)
23The strange transience of fruit (10)

Down

1Father backed a horse - he's a heathen (5)
2Art finalist took in gallery (4)
3Serial set in the country (6)
4Swift traveller (8)
5Animals the queen worries about (7)
6Star models posing for great painters (3,7)
9Become established in a Yorkshire town and an Ulster county (6,4)
12Composer butchers composition (8)
14Flower for one with false name (7)
16Medical officer getting the right parent (6)
19Stratagems Rex employs (5)
20A religious image I study (4)