Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


15 March



Across

1Pens producing plain blots (10)
7Fish worn on woman's finger? (7)
8Binder for recording (4)
10Not liable to run quickly (4)
11Had sieve fixed with glue (8)
13One nurse forced to pay protection money? (6)
15Just adjust my reel (6)
17Cleaner fuel as drawing material (8)
18Just average (4)
21Tragic queen revealing identification amidst celebration (4)
22Take care - only insiders can do this (4,3)
23This may please a card player a lot (1,5,4)

Down

1The injuries of a Scottish poet? (5)
2Girl playing with soil (4)
3Temple for a deity in Pennsylvania (6)
4Not completely skint, here debtor is overdrawn (2,3,3)
5Cut of meat for league leaders? (7)
6Bird finding husks in church (9)
9Dry out! Heated? Dry out! (9)
12'Sucre', oft translated as 'sugar' (8)
14Lying as alternative to murder? (7)
16Graduate has to report about dance (6)
19A payment for a coral island (5)
20Solitary advance, we hear (4)