DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. The relative rapidity of a totem pole (5)

4. Equipage for eviction? (7)

8. Unprecedented moment everybody has (3-4)

9. Put off from wide terraces (5)

10. Droop like an ensign? (4)

11. Echoing tones ran out (8)

13. Presumably one has an obligation to pay it (4)

14. Go here to be finished (4)

16. Where the film is if not in open court? (2,6)

17. 40 per cent of the total thus in addition (4)

20. Lift almost into paradise (5)

21. Make the player keener? (7)

22. View of the set perhaps (7)

23. What drivers do to bullock? (5)

Down

1. They may bar, not show the way ahead (7,6)

2. Article on barley product from island (5)

3. Do up about six for an old poet (4)

4. The topics she met (6)

5. What it receives from the station is airborne (5,3)

6. Pariah puts actors on strike? (7)

7. Don’t go straight to pass a critical point (4,3,6)

12. Philatelic item begins a panic (8)

13. Autocratic boss will do so to his secretary (7)

15. Reliable, but time-worn after the end of August (6)

18. Pales in fall from innocence (5)

19. Girl gives 50 to donkey (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Flinch (5)

4. Waiter (7)

8. Desert (7)

9. Foundation (5)

10. Peel (4)

11. Thrash (8)

13. Paradise (4)

14. Repair (4)

16. Double-dealing (3-5)

17. Profit (4)

20. Lift (5)

21. Rich (7)

22. Protracted (7)

23. Credit (5)

Down

1. Four-sided (13)

2. Once more (5)

3. Swimming pool (4)

4. Vocalist (6)

5. Hugged (8)

6. Decamp (7)

7. Makes a distinction (13)

12. Deteriorating (8)

13. Wearing away (7)

15. Tune (6)

18. Reform (5)

19. Twilight (4)