DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Appropriate uniform for one of the parade-ground commands (5,5) 7. An audacious trick is a fitting action (3-2) 8. A little competition before he introduces the show (7) 10. Coal involved with unusual rise in heat units (8) 11. What the police may be given by the criminal at large (4) 13. Boasts a new style in footwear (6) 15. Heaps of food in the vessel (6)

17. Particles embodied in electrification systems (4) 18. Two allowed to make a piece of jewellery (8) 21. Having the greatest volume (7) 22. Dance under the bar – a member needs nothing more! (5) 23. Let’s have no more nonsense – preserve the structure (4,3,3)

Down

1 & 14Dn. A splendid meal for a sovereign (5,7) 2. Produce a blend of green tea (8) 3. Describing a mattress that’s been approved (6) 4. In the winter I’m expecting frost (4) 5. She will account for the furniture polish (7) 6. Cattle even now completely unmoved (5-5) 9. No longer the site for the exhibition? (10) 12. He keeps going on about a learner being a punctilious type (8) 14. See 1 Down 16. Miserable figure making the crew somehow lose direction (6) 19. The restriction is fifty and I’m over it! (5) 20. Little soft cry (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Proxy (10)

7. Brief (5)

8. Sickly (7)

10. Told (8)

11. Glide (4)

13. Instil (6)

15. Sundry (6)

17. Too (4)

18. Haphazard (8)

21. Distinguished (7)

22. Monarch (5)

23. Component (10)

Down

1. Hoax (5)

2. Support (8)

3. Interfere (6)

4. Borough (4)

5. Drip (7)

6. Absorb (10)

9. Half globe (10)

12. Scatter (8)

14. Fabric (7)

16. Excited (6)

19. Distribute (5)

20. Nobleman (4)