DOUBLECROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 To get depressed, work with me around! (4) 3 Roguery - almost fail to catch the leader (8) 8 Agreeable piece of histrionic entertainment (4) 9 Southern tent-dwellers indicating what the mouse does (8) 11 They may be running the moment race is arranged! (12) 13 Went quickly before Edward delivered a frenzied outburst (6) 14 I’m getting staff tax (6) 17 Describing a light in the container of French perfume (12) 20 Flying concerns to publish files (8) 21 & 23Ac Headquarters of smaller size - that’s not founded on fact (8) 22 Tiny tree destroyed for all time (8) 23 See 21 Across

DOWN

1 Do a job on hand (8) 2 Pedlar - or the one who deals the cards? (7) 4 Stir up perception, we hear (6) 5 Expose to suspicion, but make mutual concessions (10) 6 A girl in dire necessity (5) 7 A sign of belligerence never shown openhandedly (4) 10 The age for power production (10) 12 Makes initial repetitions in speech (8) 15 Make a theatrical cut (7) 16 Most uneven? (6) 18 It conveys a physical impulse to give courage (5) 19 What the traveller pays for food (4)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Essentially. 9 Epigram. 10 Panda. 11 Enter. 12 Sallied. 13 Exhume. 15 Tangle. 18 Dynamic. 20 Cater. 22 Nylon. 23 Example. 24 Astronomers.

Down: 2 Swift. 3 Eardrum. 4 Tamest. 5 Appal. 6 Lending. 7 Neverending. 8 Hard-hearted. 14 Handles. 16 Acclaim. 17 Screen. 19 Minor. 21 Toper.