Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


3 March



Across

1Show entertaining the Spanish is lacking propriety (10)
7Old soldier or cadet, perhaps (7)
8Fire container (4)
10I fled this country (4)
11Exclude one sound singer (8)
13A news broadcast with right to reply (6)
15Sweet sort of filter (6)
17A savage who gets fed up with other people (8)
18Skilful revolutionary island (4)
21French cheese that is behind British (4)
22Unusual setting for garnets (7)
23Postmen I am rounding up for Christmas shows (10)

Down

1Land at the end of a passage? (5)
2Doctor with little work in the fall (4)
3All the mixture is deadly (6)
4They take money sacks from the army (8)
5Reprimand - for credit being cancelled? (4,3)
6Big guns with one in command (9)
9Last in pub always gets older drinks (9)
12Grounds for having a coin sent out (8)
14Grain as mashed in Spanish drink (7)
16Managed to get some - but not all - money paid to kidnappers (6)
19Connections made when wild cat is heard (5)
20Instrument used in samba and rumba (4)