DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Masterstrokes when the trophies are placed round the ring (5)

4. A paper’s misprinted, but is published (7)

8. Rural roads the artist put back in the magazine (7) 9. Part of a sect or society to which members are attached (5)

10. Drinks for those in the nursery class (4)

11. Manufactured quickly and securely tied up (4,4)

13. This could stretch the luggage space (4)

14. Dramatises part of the New Testament (4)

16. Bird to make a grating noise after dark (8)

17. One knight turns to the flag (4)

20. Pigeon house near the top of the roof (5)

21. Put somehow into unusual ecstasy (7)

22. Do they get a kick out of betting? (7)

23. Negotiate, as medical advisers do (5)

Down

1. The technique of the boatbuilder? (13) 2. Aristocratic clique ill-at-ease (5)

3. Drown in the Lakes in Killarney (4)

4. On the surface, there’s nothing to be seen in an apartment (6)

5. Endurance needed when one plays this (8) 6. Structures exposed to radioactivity (7) 7. Descriptive of a little honeyed drink (5,3,5)

12. Not penalised, as the result of secret arrangement (4-4)

13. System of administration is nearly all the colonel’s responsibility (7)

15. The clergy spread far and wide (6)

18. Stir up disagreements, we hear (5)

19. Once worn by father in the street (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Legal (5)

4. Range (7)

8. Procession (7)

9. Creed (5)

10. Declare (4)

11. Above (8)

13. Gasp (4)

14. Let it stand (4)

16. Direct (8)

17. Nil (4)

20. Hag (5)

21. Seething (7)

22. Long (7)

23. Irrigate (5)

Down

1. Listless (13)

2. Bend (5)

3. Journey (4)

4. Split (6)

5. Temperate (8)

6. Increase (7)

7. Gossip (13)

12. Occurrence (8)

13. Steal (7)

15. Threadbare (6)

18. Eject (5)

19. Opinion (4)