Book Reviews

Across

9 Member of climbing club (4) 10 Jut-land - which is bit of a mouthful? (4) 11 Give final, painful cry (5) 12 They're probably not (even for gamblers!) (4) 14 Little bit of ammunition found in half an ammonite (4)

Across ( picture clues)

1 a Plead with Max to be not good, e.g. (3,7)

5 a Voice only a rendering, all of a pace (1,7)

15 a Fling hat away to window, over a door (8)

18 a Terribly costly corn accelerators (10)

Down

3 I'm optimistic that it's cleaner inside (3) 4 Feeling belittled by the electric one (3) 6 Living with a big din? That's awful! (7) 7 Back-chat from a kisser? (3) 13 Such a noise at a boarding-school! (3) 16 Curvy part of the hierarchy ? (3) 17 Chilled out, but unwell (3)

Down ( picture clues)

1 d Reduced foiled fob attempt (6,3)

2 d Makes possible pole of second son, say (7)

8 d Down, under places described and painted so (9)

10 d Wee rats, nibbling away at woolly one (7)