DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Cuts two hundred in making it terse (8)

5 Open-hand song without direction (4)

9 Society’s debris floats on top (4)

10 Vessel dials without heaters (8)

11 Java illiterates provide help (5)

12 Red hunt for heavenly noise (7)

13 Rave about fruit. Cart around the whole sweet (9-4) 18 As pirate, as scrounger (8) 19 Rough Boer wear? (4) 20 Grab ’er’. Sounds like the plague (7)

21 Bar seat? (5)

22 Carry for a bet (4) 23 Avoiding the border line (8)

DOWN

2 Reveal the German taken from under cover (7)

3 Flower unit one in study (7) 4 What the teller made at the hold-up? (13)

6 Blackguard in song. All is paradise (7)

7 Ark must have carried one. (Or did Noah insist on two?) (7) 8 Not at ease regarding a matter of taxation (2-4) 13 Tom’s double’s a mimic (4-3)

14 Get the drink out for plane departure (7)

15 Vehicle on sidewalk endless player (6)

16 People in the wrong… could suffer this? (7)

17 Polish statue for boundary (7)

ACROSS

1 Approbation (8)

5 Disable (4)

9 Pitch (4)

10 Relates (8)

11 Finger (5)

12 Protection (7) 13 Makeshift (5-3-5) 18 Correct answer (8) 19 Surpassing all others (4) 20 Leading nowhere (4-3) 21 Truck (5)

22 Resound (4) 23 Correctly (8)

QUICK DOWN

2 Condition (7) 3 Durable (7) 4 Permanent rule (8,5) 6 Feeler (7) 7 Dominance (7)

8 Like better (6) 13 Remainder (7)

14 Let loose (7) 15 Loathing (6) 16 Clasp (7)

17 Plunder (7)