Dujon]yes both are correct. In the crossword itself the one clue I was unable to complete I did not post, "In a team, where one is kept if ostracised?(5) with _S_E_. With the 'S' from the end of "Very good apprentices, having these(7)"NOVICES and 'E' from the begining of "Passionately state (and retract) demand?(7)" EXCLAIM. We went round and round in frustrated circles in the office. Till the anwer in this morings paper, the correct answer was ASIDE, because EXCLAIM should have been DECLAIM.
Just to keep rolling along, here are two from today. The first letter of the second clue gives the third letter of the first. (If that makes sense) How active is the skeleton?(4-4) Some artists apparently made it their life study(4)
But this one remained incomplete Disadvantages on flinches from (8) _ R _ W _ A _ K have you ever felt that the answer was on the tip of you tongue but you can't see the wood for the trees?
Sorry - forgot to hide that one. I'm guessing that the previous two are BONE-IDLE and NUDE. Just to keep things going - one I haven't got from today's Times. Daisy pursues man about town (9) D _ _ _ A _ T _ _