DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 & 7 Down Having started, must go on, though entrance fee goes up 100 times (2,3,1,5,2,3,1,5) 9 How many in the Bible? (7) 10 It goes around and around, backwards and forwards (5) 11 Command in sequence, perhaps (5) 12 The sun turned blue? There must be a solution! (7) 13 On stage as a temporary substitute (6) 15 Provide cover as they do in the film world (6) 18 View nothing on the wing (7) 20 The passage is placed between English and French articles (5) 22 Concerning birth in Africa (5) 23 I am a reporter and produce a profound effect (7) 24 Finish sketch purposefully? (4,2,2,3)

DOWN

2 Called Edward to go around in the morning (5) 3 Exceed the limit because of continued demand (7) 4 Estimate the idiots have gone south (6) 5 Put one’s name down for some screen roles (5) 6 Well-known but impotent (7) 7 See 1 Across 8 Without payment or difficulty, being informal (4-3-4) 14 What he touches presumably becomes crooked (7) 16 Muscular spasm on using climbing-iron (7) 17 Violet finds there’s nothing to doing the spadework (6) 19 Legal relation? (2-3) 21 Forbidding part of ship? (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Immediately (11) 9 Appease (7) 10 Banishment (5) 11 Unstained (5) 12 Scorn (7) 13 Shrewd (6) 15 Movable shelter (6) 18 Unknowing (7) 20 Of birth (5) 22 Pale (5) 23 Unity (7) 24 Introductory (11)

DOWN

2 Commerce (5) 3 Contrary (7) 4 Avaricious (6) 5 Plait (5) 6 Disturb (7) 7 Visually impressive (11) 8 Senseless (11) 14 Instructor (7) 16 Anxiety (7) 17 Change for the better (6) 19 Cancel (5) 21 Of them (5)