Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


12 April



Across

Girl seen at daybreak (4)
Finding fault is crucial (8)
An outgoing woman crazy for marsupials (7)
10 The pain of being clever? (5)
11 Stick duck in boat (5)
12 Almost making noble entry into New York (6)
14 Boasts about wooden shoes (6)
16 Young kittens, perhaps, making a mess (6)
19 Horse carrying half of blue stone (6)
21 Ordering sacks or barrels (5)
24 Arranging bail, one has a legal defence (5)
25 Bear with a blemish following us around (7)
26 Little battleship in trial of strength? (3-2-3)
27 Use sound trees (4)

Down

Doc wants to bend low (8)
Point to sign for females (5)
Iroquois and Sioux leaders call out for insurrection (6)
Opera produced by a Scot (5)
Fellow permitted to make a garland (7)
Reluctant to be seen in clothes (4)
It protects an inventor's rights, that's obvious (6)
13 Journalists accepting ten varied gifts (8)
15 Not a big turn-out for messing about on the river? (7)
17 Old Peruvians going to the capital of Ecuador as a precaution (2,4)
18 A Japanese entertainer's part onstage is happy (6)
20 Artificial fibre that's not long-lasting (5)
22 Small fish tremble (5)
23 Actors having a fling? (4)