DOUBLE CROSSWORD

Across 1. No particular allowance for an American soldier (7,5) 7. A bit added by the tenth girl? (5) 8. Provide food from the crate (5) 9. Urge to lay? (3) 10. I send pa to the opposite extreme (9) 11. Some of the staff in it evidently are limited (6) 12. Pay attention; 50 and 10 are the same! (6) 15. Not the oath taken in court (9) 17. The time I’m needing to form a mental picture (3) 18. An ill-tempered hybrid, it would seem (5) 19. Also the incomplete fang (5) 21. Does it ensure Jack won’t be a dull boy on the farm? (7,5) Down 1. Serious crime where the receiver of stolen goods is buried (5,7) 2. Manage, but only in a hurry? (3) 3. The slackness of ten among the laymen (6) 4. What a person who admits clients should be? (9) 5. Well-known musically? (5) 6. Is it played behind bars? (6,6) 7. Groan about gas (5) 10. Unaffectedly without any aesthetic sense? (9) 13. Instruct to write a letter apiece (5) 14. Points to part of an engine (6) 16. Fifty at the front of the ship search for prey (5) 20. Away from toffee-nosed people (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Contentment (12) 7. Boredom (5) 8. Foreign (5) 9. A newt (3) 10. Co-worker (9) 11. Whirlpool (6) 12. Mar (6) 15. Outing (9) 17. Plant juice (3) 18. Thicket (5) 19. Throat (5) 21. Recipe (12)

Down

1. Obsequiousness (12) 2. Transgression (3) 3. Greedily (6) 4. Shopkeeper (9) 5. Due (5) 6. Break (12) 7. Go in (5) 10. Dispiriting (9) 13. Passage (5) 14. Loiter (6) 16. Gambol (5) 20. A corded cloth (3)