Double Crossword

Cryptic Clues:

Across

6. Describing the pupil showing no sorrow (3-4)

7. A denizen from the Far North returns to cause consternation (5)

9 & 4Dn. Convivial bonhomie by the political group? (5,6)

10. Receiving information of a trial (7)

12. Unattached footballers becoming pirates (11)

14. Protective clothing for men of letters? (5,2,4)

18. The scale associated with the trombonist! (7)

19. Seventeen reformed by a quiet hint (5)

21. Got ‘urt carrying

weapons (5)

22. The gang spotted

the woodcutter (7)

Down

1. Second-class highway not restricted in space (5)

2. Street dog quite

unrestrained (6)

3 & 20Dn. German name for the girl’s fiance (6)

4. See 9 Across

5. Etiquette for country houses, one hears (7)

8. Beneficial changes about school classes (7)

11. Show resilience when tied down again (7)

13. They reduce the temperature in prisons (7)

15. I tried to become

less disorderly (6)

16. Where you’ll find the old lag as a member of the team (6)

17. Is about endlessly expensive concepts (5)

20. See 3 Down Quick Across Clues: 6. Repel (7)

7. Inexpensive (5) 9. Thong (5) 10. Attitude (7) 12. Last but one (11) 14. Allowable (11) 18. Stockings (7) 19. Daub (5) 21. Corner (5) 22. Exhaustion (7)

Down

1. Small hollows (5)

2. Kind (6)

3. Employ (3)

4. Metre (6)

5. Recount (7)

8. Include (7)

11. Hasty (7)

13. Echo (7)

15. Chiefly (6)

16. Clear (6)

17. Uncertain (5)

20. Course (3)