Double Crossword

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues: Across

4. Oil cuts put eye

specialist out (7)

8. Ran hop without

parents (6)

9. Detains as

substitute (7)

10. Outcast giving

father hair back (6)

11. The United Nations

still are rough (6)

12. The ancients for

example (8)

18. The sentinel should be a good timekeeper (8)

20. Postscript on vehicle for vagrants (6)

21. Be absorbed at the end of June – then arise (6)

22. Reveals I am to get

the strap back (7)

23. Asks an American

state to change (6)

24. Father’s hours for

recreation (7)

Down

1. Elizabeth the Second goes with splendour to ruined city (7)

2. Overburden the newspaper world with work (7)

3. Is the girl able to go

to the country? (6)

5. 100 in search of

victory (8)

6. Refuse strewn about for baby animals (6)

7. He could be on thin

ice, of course (6)

13. A bit of intelligence needed in fresh “Times” trouble (4,4)

14. It will create quite an effect when I am a reporter (7)

15. Anger, even if it does smell sweet (7)

16. Article on lawbreaking in part of Russia (6)

17. Deed by mischievous child leads to collision (6)

19. Fight doctor in

outer garment (6)

Quick Clues: Across

4. Own (7)

8. Make callous (6)

9. Everlasting (7)

10. Uselessly (2,4)

11. Maintenance (6)

12. Burden (8)

18. Unrelenting (8)

20. Steal (6)

21. Contradict (6)

22. Escape (7)

23. Deny (6)

24. Striped (7)

Down

1. Wither (7)

2. Fissure (7)

3. Instrumentality (6)

5. Explosion (8)

6. Hit (6)

7. Sailors (6)

13. Unsaddled (8)

14. Thin (7)

15. Apart (7)

16. Menace (6)

17. Tell (6)

19. Impede (6)