DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. What marksmen use for locating heights? (12) 7. See 13 Down 8. It needs some pluck to proscribe Josephine! (5) 9. Display of temper when father loses his head (3) 10. Paradoxically, a spiritless community (5,4) 11. Famous bareback rider (6) 12. Tearaway to indulge in exploitation (3,3) 15. Authoritative decree for one in the artillery (9) 17. Lightly touch on a quotation (3) 18. Somehow I’m at a fine fiddle! (5) 19. Bailiff is removed from here eventually (5) 21. Assistant scribes in the insurance world? (12)

Down

1. Count of all those at the starting-blocks? (7,5) 2. Some of the children adore her (3) 3. Where one enters a kind of game (6) 4. The part of the balancesheet that does you no credit! (5,4) 5. Get right on to perform a recurring musical theme (5) 6. Approximate golf scores? (5,7) 7. Money required for food (5) 10. Either sent to prison or allowed breathing-space (5,4) 13 & 7Ac. Where the bishop may be seen serving as a director (2,3,5) 14. Disciple to wander all over the place (6) 16. As tense as evenly contested matches are (5) 20. One following the Spanish patriarch (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Perplexity (12) 7. Perspire (5) 8. Animal track (5) 9. Epoch (3) 10. Innocent (9) 11. Ditch (6) 12. Leeway (6) 15. Bend (9) 17. Japanese sash (3) 18. Avoid (5) 19. Cleanse (5) 21. Confinement (12)

Down

1. Wearing glasses (12) 2. Untruth (3) 3. Net (6) 4. Be naughty (9) 5. Lasso (5) 6. Foreboding (12) 7. Frighten (5) 10. Sea-rover (9) 13. Copse (5) 14. Uproar (6) 16. Kingdom (5) 20. Manage (3)