Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


21 January



Across

1They are cold-blooded and calculating! (6)
4Boats made of sticks, with nothing inside (6)
8Conclusive evidence of strength of liquor (5)
9Stories supplied if tonic is ordered (7)
10A month with a girl (7)
11Is little Susan having children? (5)
12Very many of you on the beach? (9)
17Check the accounts of German car trader first (5)
19Further loan (7)
21Diminish as a result of docking? (4,3)
22French city scroll, illegible in part (5)
23The flavour of mackerel is horrible (6)
24Old girl often in distress? (6)

Down

1Be seen to edit a paper (6)
2Doctor should see dry condition (7)
3First breaks, then splits! (5)
5Lots for sale here (7)
6Terribly moist leaves out! (5)
7It has around ten numbers and fourteen lines (6)
9Standard-bearer taking stones to Welsh river (9)
13Work is not about making choices (7)
14Carol and Leslie - they aren't married (7)
15Transporter for former US president (6)
16Make merry, taking in a show (6)
18Exercise makes doctor unwell (5)
20Residence in which all four turn up (5)