DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

7 Marksmen who have meteoric careers? (8,5)

8 Ugly rent needs to be put together pressingly (8)

9 One way to communicate a piece of vital knowledge (4) 10 Stays to give personal support (6)

12 Do real results come from such a stern test? (6)

14 Wood and metal container on the beach (6)

16 Eagerly Ken rummaged in the locker (6)

18 A singular failure (4)

20 It’s rash returning yet has some worth inside (8)

22 It offers protection to buyers and sellers alike (7,6)

DOWN

1 Smokes are dear in France and also up a shilling (8) 2 They don’t like gooseberries (6)

3 A growing source of money (4)

4 Not a pretty sight on the face of things (4,4)

5 Tasted, perhaps, and expressed an opinion (6) 6 Spoken in morality (4) 11 What scores of young people are in? (8)

13 Hub-hub! (4-4)

15 Love duets freshly turned out (6)

17 They’re made in plenty, but never correctly (6)

19 Tonic for golfers (4)

21 This reminds me to go to the doctor (4)

QUICK ACROSS

7 Decay (13) 8 Industrious (8) 9 Slope (4) 10 Sufferer (6) 12 Troubled (6) 14 Appertain (6) 16 Die (6)

18 Dull (4) 20 Rapturous (8) 22 Negligible (13)

DOWN

1 Physic (8) 2 Portray (6) 3 Fearful (4) 4 Jut out (8) 5 Famish (6) 6 Bulb (4) 11 Attractive (8) 13 Relic (8) 15 Acquire (6) 17 Calm (6) 19 Join (4) 21 Hut (4)