Can You Crack This Cryptic?
Across
- 1. Going back into the lair toilet proves a test (5)
- 4. Young girl with strange Spanish pram becomes loathed spinster (4,6)
- 5. They deduct why muddled E.T. evicted (9)
- 6. Detective’s current job sees troubled lovers initially leave the castle (4)
- 7. Sidekick sounds like he will regret speeding (8)
- 11. In a Hindu town perhaps the criminal is revealed at the end (9)
- 12. Sees crime - now nearly witless (7)
- 13. Knife injury is a .... in the dark (4)
- 14. He touched the artwork, leaving this behind (11)
- 15. My tyres spin – it is an enigma (7)
- 16. Copper within interpol ices criminal (6)
- 17. Cipher found key word within encoded document (4)
Down
- 2. Sound like aunts err in response (6)
- 3. Oddly collude to find hint (4)
- 5. Find the record has ended (8)
- 7. Extremely hungry cats prowl for food (5)
- 8. Midnight at the United Nations - murder weapon discovered! (3)
- 9. Artistic space where Poirot sums up the case (7,4)
- 10. Loves confusion but finds answer (5)
- 15. She demurred, confused, ‘they died by violence?’ (8)