daily double

the easy way

ACROSS 1 Vigorous attack (9) 8 One of the Great Lakes (5) 9 Express objection (7) 10 Base (6) 11 Menace (6) 12 Eternal (8) 15 Innocuous (8) 18 Reason (6) 20 Public disgrace (6) 21 Learned person (7) 22 Workers’ association (5) 23 Fairly good (9) DOWN 2 A cardinal point (5) 3 Soap suds (6) 4 Disturb (8) 5 Seat of kings (6) 6 Composed (7) 7 Strong dislike (9) 11 Knack (9) 13 Indiscriminate killing (8) 14 Vehicles using road (7) 16 Mourn (6) 17 Southwest African country (6) 19 Beaten path in wilds (5)

the hard way

ACROSS 1 This fruit makes a heavenly drink in the East (9) 8 Club that has lofty aims (5) 9 A priest converts tramp (7) 10 Promise not freely given (6) 11 Possibly ask her for a salt cellar, for example (6) 12 Open late perhaps for the supply of chamois (8) 15 Savage measure may well lead to conflict (3,5) 18 Improves compensation (6) 20 Possessive types (6) 21 Back seat taken by passengers (7) 22 Material displayed by salesman in church (5) 23 Lice in the back room? Don’t worry (5,4) DOWN 2 A change of heart for one mother (5) 3 Uses one’s loaf in dealing with ink stains (6) 4 Holiday downpour and what it may do to one’s activities? (8) 5 Bolt or lock the cell door to prevent it (6) 6 Scotsman going it alone; was he wise? (7) 7 Concerns financial gains (9) 11 Sluggard making little progress with a tutor (9) 13 It’s a tree used in a composition (8) 14 We hear a campanologist helps with the washing (7) 16 Remain when in trouble - these fly (6) 17 Ambled into a madhouse (6) 19 Kill a doctor and confess (5)