Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


31 January



Across

1A drink in the shade (6)
4Raft I'd set loose might be this (6)
8Dud Moore, the famous lover? (5)
9Again let loose (7)
10Card game making some American a star (7)
111 across encountered in front of empty houses (5)
12Put a wreath on a river in the country (9)
17Capital person settled in manor (5)
19Write about air on a planet (7)
21Turning 13 down? That's swell (7)
22True Conservatives? (5)
23Nigel's getting about, being unmarried (6)
24Offer for nurse? (6)

Down

1Neat tree (6)
2Huge people in rebuilt semi (7)
3Religious images one studies (5)
5Between two girls, left in a quandary (7)
6Unsuitable order for paint (5)
7Religious belief set him off (6)
9Change in order to get back to the stove (9)
13This officer is not particular (7)
14Given narcotics, dealers start getting tough (7)
15Underwear made from artificial fibres? (6)
16Superior gambler (6)
18Fruit swallowed by some Londoners (5)
20Super sort of money bag (5)