DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Lent is brought forward (8)

6 Carry out exercises for slow‑witted type (4)

8 Chance order to go after money (6)

9 Anaesthetic for one – or two, three, four perhaps (6)

10 Add to chemical mixture (8) 13 Plays a role from Cats perhaps (4)

14 Civil force capturing a king with serviceable relics (9)

17 Bird’s sea speed (4)

18 Longing for youth leader to be getting wages (8) 19 Definitely not one far off (2,4)

21 Embedded level inside trendy top (6)

23 Soldiers’ letters regularly revealing poetry (4)

24 Theories about buildings and grounds (8)

Down

2 Bit of cloth fellow put round monster (6)

3 Sum up in paddock (3)

4 Local group commander must first confound mutiny (9)

5 Providing part of the racket (3)

6 Permanent fate of the Netherlands? (9)

7 Lots of work around hospital department (6)

11 No reason to indicate more infrequently (9)

12 Media star, craftily, to produce for the stage (9)

15 Slowly open one French note, aged (6)

16 Tempt some of the apprentices (6)

20 Sales agent in store promotion (3)

22 Garland of some buddleia (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Water‑filled room heater (8)

6 Travelling bag (4)

8 Foot‑dragging work protest (2‑4)

9 Sticky confection (6)

10 Unmarried male (8)

13 Crisp Mexican pancake (4)

14 Flight attendants (5,4)

17 Fifty per cent (4)

18 Domestic energy gauge (3,5)

19 Guard duty (6)

21 Force of a collision (6)

23 Mobile phone message (4)

24 Charitable gift (8)

Down

2 Warm hooded jacket (6)

3 Poorly (3)

4 Bathrobe fabric (9)

5 Furrow (3)

6 French coffee plunger (9)

7 Bad smell (6)

11 Diving position (4,5)

12 Period of economic decline (9)

15 Lay waste (6)

16 Fastening fabric (6)

20 Showed the way (3)

22 Pool of money (3)