DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 High cultivated features of modern cities (4-7) 9 Everything, we hear, for shoemakers (3) 10 Dreadful comedown for Alpine travellers (9) 11 Fashionable race-course for a northern Briton (5) 13 Siamese knitwear? (4-3) 14 Shelter for fliers (6) 16 A donkey, it’s about to help (6) 18 Trampled, with or without study (7) 19 Regal part of Troy, a long time ago (5) 20 Their guns will be broken, you can safely bet on that! (4,5) 21 He has nothing inside for the gardener (3) 22 Their husbands didn’t leave them unconsoled, apparently! (5,6)

DOWN 2 Naturally, it lacks refinement (3) 3 Spread strongly over the East (5) 4 Stays will change a waist (6) 5 Record books I’d come up to sign (7) 6 Need no luxury (9) 7 He will fall on his enemies (11) 8 prefers to be a man lacking spirit (11) 12 A crowd of a hundred heading the right way (9) 15 He will be called to account (7) 17 I’ve now become available for inspection (2,4) 19 Stiff clothes I’d put on (5) 21 Cut out of the will (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Forerunner (11) 9 Pinch (3) 10 Clock (9) 11 Proposal (5) 13 Copy (7) 14 Misanthropes (6) 16 Selfish person (6) 18 Long curl (7) 19 Compact (5) 20 Get rid of (9) 21 In the past (3) 22 In turn (11)

DOWN

2 Slash (3) 3 Put off (5) 4 Perpetrate (6) 5 Young tree (7) 6 At work (9) 7 Not anxious (11) 8 Hatred (11) 12 Monetary (9) 15 Clash (7) 17 Reach (6) 19 Handle (5) 21 Everybody (3)