DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Last . 3 Aspirate . 9 Bear out. 10 Taste. 11 Unfavourable. 13 Easily. 15 Assent. 17 Manslaughter. 20 Ample. 21 General. 22 Berating. 23 Awed. Down: 1 Laboured. 2 Staff. 4 Set out. 5 Intransigent. 6 Absolve. 7 Eyes. 8 Convalescent. 12 Startled. 14 Scamper. 16 Margin. 18 Threw. 19 Lamb.

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 They’re used when surveying aircraft schedules (5-6)

9 A brandy and soda for Margaret (3)

10 Reveal it’s capable of changing (9)

11 Get in a tangle with a composer (5)

13 Variety of Robinia found in African safari base (7)

14 What the defendants put forward, we hear, to give satisfaction (6)

16 A saving grace? (6)

18 Seal I’m to put in black and white (7)

19 Stop in Panamanian port (5) 20 An extreme part added on at the end (4-5)

21 This will set the pattern for a shortened food course (3) 22 Elementally disturbed, in the main (5-6)

DOWN

2 Make a record of a mathematical term (3)

3 Book Five in Christmas setting (5)

4 It’s exhausting bringing it back to the arena (6)

5 Grizzly sort of tendency on the stock market (7)

6 Known as a leader among journalists (9)

7 Suitable to take possession of (11)

8 Payments that will give Mac interest (11)

12 Invite POW to give an opinion (9)

15 The captain is one who can handle a rope (7)

17 One of the ways in which urban life can be seen (6) 19 Sounds like a pleasure trip for the seamen (5)

21 Should be settled as a fee (3)