Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


25 January



Across

1Sailor with coat and first man to cover a road? (10)
7Article about performance (7)
8New husband is a stable man (5)
10Top of skirt has new waistband (4)
11Doubt set in quotes (8)
13Be united with company present (6)
15Moves after I left cagebirds (6)
17Where schoolchildren bought food for friar's dance? (4-4)
18Norse god with some authority (4)
21A girl of the Indian Empire (5)
22One tail wagging with great joy (7)
23Lasting well in its present form (10)

Down

1Parasites making right marks (5)
2The ceremony is correct, we hear (4)
3Using maximum power, everyone is on strike (3-3)
4Roman emperor giving a month to us (8)
5Loving a party call (7)
6Writing censored by editor taken to court (10)
9Cook sent in more soup (10)
12People who work backstage making furniture? (8)
14Replacement for the acre! (7)
16Do they pull tall buildings? (6)
19Uplift one gets in a crowd (5)
20Get a poor number of spectators (4)