Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


11 August



Across

Service in US state shortened (4)
Happiest sort of deadlines? (8)
Superficial display takes everyone in (7)
10 Drink that's a hit (5)
11 Standing up before empty court (5)
12 A doctor with oxygen — it is nifty (6)
14 Dislike of French examination (6)
16 Rod held by gunners somewhere in Africa (6)
19 Journalists' boss rioted madly (6)
21 River extremely strange? Not so (5)
24 Agreement in Berlin on port wine (5)
25 Room containing ancient bag (7)
26 I, a setter, revised work (8)
27 Consult bishop about busy workers (4)

Down

Metal held by female is deceptive (8)
Fish to go on ice? (5)
Two hands required for tropical fruit (6)
Thanks for each slender light (5)
Payment when one's finished work in boarding house (7)
Part of London that's not quite so warm (4)
Second thoughts about former dishes (6)
13 Sell up, but first look for antelopes (8)
15 Young Kermit playing old tape (7)
17 Talk nonsense when given something to eat (6)
18 Composer getting drunk with Liszt (6)
20 Pamphlet that's followed, so we hear (5)
22 Don't take time off (5)
23 Courage that may be needed on icy roads (4)