Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


18 January



Across

1Tender young model? (4-6)
7A gift for putting party before country (8)
8A monstrous giant makes the queen go back (4)
9Retain part of the castle (4)
10The food of love, say? (7)
12Game strikers fought to get minerals (11)
14King George has a double but not all at once (7)
16Laid-back face (4)
19Incline to be thin (4)
20Hustling to provide natural illumination (8)
21Late campanologist's double (4,6)

Down

1Tolerate a small stream (5)
2Showing two undergarments is most valiant (7)
3Leave out a container for rubbish (4)
4Sat and drank from these? (8)
5Run away from antelopes (5)
6Criminals used by shepherds? (6)
11Leeds can change if purified (8)
12Island that is carried round? (6)
13Cultivating fruit on top of greenhouse (7)
15Needs reform, being stupid (5)
17Composer providing some simple harmony (5)
18One who's not in favour in Byzantium (4)