DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across 1. Gamble on purchase from dramatist? (4,3,5) 7. Far from interested in being drilled (5)

8. Squeeze former stage turn (5)

9. See 2 Down

10. Ill-treat in order to heal minds, perhaps (9)

11. Complete anger after getting net tangled (6)

12. Amuse by taking a header to the right (6)

15. Formerly a profit made a second time (4,5)

17. Tool initially had open end (3)

18. Where cricketers may make mistakes? (5)

19. Warns of 20 on the road? (5)

21. He tries to get over love in his first service (6,6) Down

1. Somewhere for the ordinary soldier to live? (7,5)

2 & 9 Ac. Search for food

taking years (6)

3. Most inelegant duster (6)

4. Cuts in the theatre? (9)

5. Animal from Eastern country (5) 6. Presumably he knows a way to sell (6,6)

7. As given by goat on turntable? (5)

10. It’s normal wicked act (6,3)

13. So the characteristic spirit forms (5)

14. Graduate gets host out anticlimax results (6)

16. The region of 100 fruit (5)

20. Bird of lowly origins (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Meddling (12)

7. Caper (5)

8. Cognisant (5)

9. Nothing (3)

10. Misrepresented (9)

11. Allure (6)

12. Hunting expedition (6)

15. Certainty (9)

17. Hire out (3)

18. Jog (5)

19. Revive (5)

21. Corrects (4,2,6) Down 1. Glowing (12) 2. Decay (3) 3. Surplus (6) 4. Highly finished (9) 5. Intone (5) 6. School principal (12)

7. Distribute (5)

10. Impostors (9)

13. Narrow lane (5)

14. Size of paper (6)

16. Crest (5)

20. A garland (3)