DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Pop’s executors? (5) 4. The fighter’s craft (7) 8. Die of cold (3,4) 9. Sprinkle water on a small bouquet? (5) 10. Her name’s in all the American newspapers (4)

11. Children’s horse one found in melting snow is slow (8)

13. Goes out after a rise (4)

14. Natural inclination to be crooked (4)

16. Where typists may get out-of-this-world drinks? (5-3)

17. Visitors to Sicily should see it before coming back (4)

20. Being a fool I do it wrongly (5)

21. A prize for waste (7)

22. Where women are prepared to follow an order (7)

23. A surface of about one foot (5)

Down

1. Get in to obtain a confession (4,9)

2. Once a sort used by water travellers (5)

3. A shade better than the others (4)

4. Turns west and lists (6)

5. Reconciled to having had to give up work (8) 6. Member of the orchestra arranging his part (7) 7. An ill-minded investigator? (13)

12. He’s not an attendant (8)

13. Such subterfuge may be so naive (7)

15. Complaint of youth in May (6)

18. It’s something to talk about (5)

19. Count in German (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Conclude (5) 4. Feign (7) 8. Dawdle (7) 9. Traverse (5) 10. Chief assistant (4) 11. Loyalty (8) 13. Entice (4) 14. Thin (4) 16. Denial (8) 17. Mature (4) 20. Exterior (5) 21. Fragment (7) 22. Odd (7) 23. Tendency (5)

Down

1. Immediate (13)

2. Cast (5)

3. Roster (4)

4. Package (6)

5. Surrounded (8)

6. Feeling (7)

7. Impartial (13)

12. Brothers (8)

13. Barge (7)

15. Compel (6)

18. Angry (5)

19. Spot of soot (4)