DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1. Collision causes one politician to do something ( 6)

4. Raps for seeking entry ( 6)

9. Using it can drive one round the bend! ( 8- 5)

10. Decline to fall asleep ( 4,3)

11. Avoid bad duel with egghead ( 5)

12. Love to make fuss about... ( 5)

14. ... plane crash in mountain state ( 5)

18. Their house can never be peerless ( 5)

19. Eric and Len take their ease ( 7)

21. His work should make the outlook clearer ( 6- 7)

22. Is very afraid of adders ( 6)

23. Where animals can watch the show? ( 6)

Down

1. Selected for the team and so off the streets ( 6)

2. Can need proper order for greater weight ( 13) 3. Inquisitive? Not us! It’s an unusual object ( 5)

5. In this place at present, yet in no place at all ( 7)

6. Mistaken idea: no cut in fuel in mixed classes ( 13)

7. He puts money by – about a pound – for tray ( 6)

8. Make one in the long run if young at heart ( 5)

13. Answer some of the correspondence ( 7)

15. Being spoilt, little Alfred was up to getting married ( 6)

16. Deception in card game? ( 5)

17. Lovers’ suit? ( 6)

20. Divided the

100 remaining ( 5)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Recount ( 6)

4. Scamp ( 6)

9. Variegated ( 13)

10. Vehement ( 7)

11. Emit ( 5)

12. Semblance ( 5)

14. Strap ( 5)

18. Structure ( 5)

19. Ticket ( 7)

21. Unprogressive ( 5- 2- 3- 3)

22. Wood ( 6)

23. On time ( 6)

Down

1. Dislodge ( 6)

2. Idiom ( 13)

3. String ( 5)

5. Annul ( 7)

6. Flower ( 13)

7. Deposited ( 6)

8. Unwilling ( 5)

13. Dot ( 7)

15. Scion ( 6)

16. Occurrence ( 5)

17. Believe ( 6)

20. Doorkeeper ( 5)