daily double

the easy way

ACROSS

1 Agitate (7) 4 Ill-feeling (5) 7 Loud ringing of bells (4) 8 Cause of great happiness (8) 10 Prepare to fight (4,2,4) 12 Medium-sized American wildcat (6) 13 Morosely irritable (6) 15 Final desperate expedient (4,6) 18 Untypical (8) 19 Naturally untruthful person (4) 20 Costume of monk or nun (5) 21 Perceive clearly (7)

DOWN

1 Storehouse (5) 2 Chains (8) 3 Sentimental song (6) 4 After-the-event analysis (4-6) 5 Depart (4) 6 With enthusiasm (7) 9 Dissemble (3,2,2,3) 11 Motionless (8) 12 Large flightless bird (7) 14 Pay heed (6) 16 Italian city (5) 17 Search thoroughly (4)

the hard way

ACROSS

1 Artillery brass hats (3,4) 4 Novel house, but starting to let rain in (5) 7 School report returned (4) 8 Line brought into use when one rings (4,4) 10 Do they stop cars in record time? (4,6) 12 Develop part of a revolver (6) 13 Type of briefs used in the textile industry (6) 15 People never read their own (10) 18 Be generous with some incriminating information? (4,4) 19 I’d look around for bathing facilities (4) 20 Shoes repaired and disposed of we hear (5) 21 Mother takes a long time to get compensation (7)

DOWN

1 Increase the strain (5) 2 A fine performance in Oklahoma perhaps (4,4) 3 Observes a western board game (6) 4 Perhaps all-in sabre dancing is their sphere (10) 5 His influence may make Rose change her name (4) 6 Magnetic holders? (7) 9 Too proud to take lodgers - honest! (5,5) 11 I’d bring a form of decorative tape (8) 12 Binds books (7) 14 Seaside yarn (6) 16 Calls a halt to putting up notices (5) 17 It’s wrong to be stuck up (4)