Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


4 December



Across

1Loyalty, for example, in partnership (10)
7Continent I discovered in camera snap (7)
8Some sugar used for punishment? (4)
10A, B, C, D, F or G? (4)
11Listen twice for approval from audience (4,4)
13A little mischief-maker, a scallywag, a rogue (6)
15A Greek city has ten ruins (6)
17Kidnap a seaman in China (8)
18Joker - or some other one from the pack? (4)
21Aeroplane going round pole for a joke (4)
22An animal lies on a rock (3,4)
23Bloomers head's angry about (10)

Down

1Proficient in a small department (5)
2Left help to be put down (4)
3Poor Gerald looked angry (6)
4Correct copper in a box (8)
5Some academic once denied a grant (7)
6She washes Los Angeles strip (9)
9Quiet inhabitant - of Washington D.C.? (9)
12Guard the foolish girl (8)
14Drivelling drudgery? (7)
16Growin' dried fruit (6)
19Another name for a return voyage (5)
20New team companion (4)