DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Be reticent - a sufferer from sciatica will! (4, 4) 5 Operated a tabulating-machine - the facts are given inside (4) 9 Farthest from the winner, but keep going (4) 10 Southern typographer gets to the tape quickly (8) 11 Plan to encircle one member of a squadron (5) 12 The money certain people used to have for gifts (7) 13 As nation still is in turmoil, they are set up as sources of power (13) 18 To be suspended from above - that’s the uncomfortable feeling a party man may get (4-4) 19 Possibly vast containers for liquid (4) 20 He has no illusions about an inclination (7) 21 What an adder may well produce (5) 22 A certain amount of work to be done for this master (4) 23 Two allowed the ornament to be kept near at hand (8)

DOWN

2 It’s delivered as a certain amount of food with nothing over (7) 3 Tried to reorganise part of Michigan (7) 4 It’s initially used in the Washington Post (7, 6) 6 A strange notion for the Merchant of Venice (7) 7 Checks what the police make (7) 8 Lock controller to get fish ready for cooking (6) 13 What people who succeed do (7) 14 Some of the stockings and also footwear (7) 15 Covering the smallest particles turned to mica (6) 16 The opposite of how the poet writes! (7) 17 Chemical container raised with speed (7)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Lead astray (8) 5 Cry (4) 9 Biggest continent (4) 10 Compute (8) 11 Pass along smoothly (5) 12 Authentic (7) 13 Supereminence (13) 18 Tedious (8) 19 Unctuous (4) 20 Lamp-case (7) 21 Hinge (5) 22 Fume (4) 23 Amaze (8)

DOWN

2 Narrow-minded (7) 3 Delight (7) 4 Differences (13) 6 High spirits (7) 7 Go before (7) 8 Held down (6) 13 In name only (7) 14 Settle (7) 15 Nun (6) 16 Feeling (7)’ 17 Insensitive (7)