Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


29 January



Across

1Chimney-cleaners win the lottery (10)
7Not a sum, somehow, but sums (7)
8I'm entertained by little Desmond making money in America (5)
10Drinks for children? (4)
11Final alternative tram line (8)
13Far-off sort of meteor (6)
15Quickly taking break in river (6)
17Reading novel about Pole being threatened (2,6)
18Right time for storm (4)
21Heavenly food from the German nation (5)
22A bird has swallowed her cigar (7)
23Bible story about fellow deserving forgiveness (10)

Down

1Lacking, but not for long (5)
2A bird found in Inverness (4)
3Delicately coloured plates broken (6)
4Washing line? (8)
5Robes out east no Eskimo designed (7)
6Garden plant making autumn stir (10)
9Outline changing in hotel suite (10)
12Normal colours? (8)
1421 down includes celebration for pop star (7)
16Clergyman from inside a convent (6)
19Jack takes poem home (5)
20A Slav embraced by Kaiser Bill (4)