Double Crossword

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues:

Across

1. Coach bearing (8)

5. Not prosaic efforts from a good essayist (4)

9. Part of the leg of a

young animal (4)

10. Close friend to

drop a hint (8)

11. Insurance makes the company very short (5)

12. Rufus, the Communist chief (7)

13. He gathers in outstanding items (4,9)

18. What will be found in the book gives satisfaction (8)

19. See 13 Down

20. Alfresco opera in varied presentation (4-3)

21. Transport for Dr

Hill (5)

22. In the services a showy piece of regalia (4)

23. Roughly calculate when teatime’s rearranged (8)

Down

2. It’s stylish to do a meal differently (1,2,4)

3. Think what a mirror

will do (7)

4. See real strong change in supermarkets (7,6)

6. It’s most expensive,

sweetheart (7)

7. Willowy man who makes advances beyond the south (7)

8. Trifle with what the

bowman uses (6)

13 & 19Ac. Employers may receive it from one with some illfeeling! (7,4)

14. Certainties for

financiers (7)

15. Scare resolved about a famous Roman (6)

16. A hundred on the bench behave conventionally (7)

17. Not at home to dispatch mail for remote station (7)

Quick Clues: Across

1. Good-looking (8)

5. Goad (4)

9. Responsibility (4)

10. Superficial (4-4)

11. Composition (5)

12. Cultivation (7)

13. Insipidity (13)

18. Cause (8)

19. Meditate (4)

20. Gluttonise (7)

21. Supplicate (5)

22. Act (4)

23. Oblation (8)

Down

2. Loss of memory (7) 3. Remote (7) 4. Maximise (4,3,4,2) 6. Portend (7) 7. Keep under (7) 8. Corners (6) 13. Double (7) 14. Hide (7) 15. Follows (6) 16. More agile (7) 17. Keep up (7)