yword CrypQuick #5 (Sat)

yword crypquick · by moody · · 13×13

send the game's link to anyone you want to solve with: you'll see each other's letters appear as you type. or just solve it on your own. no account needed.

Across clues are cryptic, down clues are quick.

across

  1. 1Baked, perhaps? That is, it keeps the loaf warm (6)
  2. 4Lying for directions (5)
  3. 7Race cancelled due to melting snow (3-3)
  4. 8Unhealthy looking seal pursues mate (6)
  5. 9Water, classically, as a beginning (4)
  6. 10Adolescent, incoherent rage after cardinal takes party drug (8)
  7. 12Seat messy with mixture of wet sand in two directions (4,3,4)
  8. 17To relax, police officer hugs chopped trees around the beginning of September (2-6)
  9. 19Up for it? No, drunk (4)
  10. 20Alternatively, Postecoglou brings colour (6)
  11. 21Northern sibling captured in sour kidnapping (3,3)
  12. 22George Eliot initially chases lust, for example, getting a slight burn (5)
  13. 23Farewell, we hear to go beyond is to go round (6)

down

  1. 1Short (7)
  2. 2Nerds in coats, coats for nerds (7)
  3. 3Inspire foolish passion (9)
  4. 4Not pretty, lacking flavour (5)
  5. 5Does a favour (7)
  6. 6Suffer (6)
  7. 11Camera work that reveals the inner you? (9)
  8. 13Stab Ian (anag) (7)
  9. 14African country (7)
  10. 15Tasty snippets (7)
  11. 16Repugnant, hateful (6)
  12. 18Wildcard, not without charm (5)