DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Narrow strip of land is like this, covering miles (7)
5 Work on nervous
reaction of the eye (5) 8 Beat both robbers
somewhat (5)
9 Corsets sorted out for
chaperones (7)
10 A French student at church to open the gate (7)
11 Variety of distance (5) 12 Ten lose head and
heart again! (6)
14 Listen out for Christmas
decoration (6)
18 Through fine art, has to connect with the ground (5)
20 Nasty pain, sir? This
will ease it (7)
22 New rider following highway gets agitated (7)
23 Furious, that is,
about deserter (5)
24 It is clear I’d most of the
good fortune first (5)
25 Amount of money in the grass picked up again (7)
DOWN
1 I turned round to poke my nose in (7) 2 Novice left below mountainous region (5) 3 Hoodlum wrecks tombs with some hesitation (7)
4 Observe the boil (6)
5 Happen to have firm
backing on mongrel (5) 6 Dictators bellow when imprisoned in awful sty (7)
7 Hereditary class of
actors, we hear (5)
13 After jack, perhaps, I
cut ace of hearts (7)
15 I’m leading couples
to get damages (7)
16 Oil, non-starter in
mixed diesel (7)
17 Left snake with its companion on board! (6)
18 Behead animal to
make a stand (5)
19 Ran fast, difficult round
centre of arena (5)
21 Back before start of Monday to prepare again for attack (5)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Camp in the open
air (7)
5 American species
of deer (5)
8 Blended (5)
9 Cash savings (4,3) 10 Timepiece that
works by shadow (7) 11 Amount produced (5) 12 Clear (an underwater
channel) (6)
14 Tell tales or
secrets (6)
18 Reimburse (5)
20 Small extract (7)
22 Point from which something is observed (7)
23 Page within
a page (5)
24 Prolonged morning stay under the duvet (3-2)
25 Child supervision
facilities (3,4)
DOWN
1 Puzzled (7)
2 She-fox (5)
3 Infinite (7)
4 Wax taper (6) 5 ___ peas, green food to
go with fish and chips (5) 6 Stuff yourself (7)
7 Sidled (5)
13 Stretch (7)
15 Expertise (7) 16 Allow (7)
17 Rise gradually (6)
18 Party (5)
19 Long (for) (5)
21 Unleavened dough use
in Italian cookery (5)