DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Make up the deficiency with a denture perhaps (5,3,3)

9 A habit our soldiers may get into (7)

10 Ideal form for a girl (5)

11 Yet it may be quite a young tree (5)

12 Caterer upset in a domestic row (7)

13 What most fish have to be weighed on (6)

15 It’s hot to the tongue, and cold to the ear (6)

18 IOUs run wild could well be! (7)

20 A N.European returns to cause dismay (5)

22 Take from one by right? (5) 23 Brazilian port to us appears boisterous (7) 24 Unemployed jester who won’t let anyone take him in (7,4)

DOWN

2 Owner of northern lands (5) 3 Company in a rush to inflict pain (7)

4 A motto for the vegetarian (6)

5 Bird gets down on the bed (5)

6 Not a sunny greeting? (3,4) 7 Odd way in which the debtor finds himself (5,6)

8 He can’t take his mind off things (11)

14 How to play stirring music? (7)

16 Deflect from an order to execute? (4,3)

17 An outsize quarry for a bird (6)

19 Excel with an al-fresco celebration (5)

21 Final result of a snap decision (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Useless (11) 9 Transit (7)

10 Drone (5) 11 Memento (5) 12 Chivalrous (7) 13 Drive forward (6) 15 Defeated (6) 18 Raider (7) 20 Prickly plants (5) 22 Characteristic (5) 23 Tableland (7) 24 Stood for (11)

DOWN

2 Of the nose (5)

3 Engaged girl (7)

4 Vigour (6)

5 Test (5)

6 Brave (7)

7 Apt (11)

8 Showy (11)

14 Preclude (7)

16 Link together (7) 17 Breaks out (6) 19 Dissuade (5) 21 Mediterranean island (5)