DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Small bays, awfully silent (6)

4 Good animal is free (6)

9 Spring doesn’t end at meadow (3)

10 Infer nude may be rude? (9)

11 Observe vigil (5)

12 Candidate, one worried about bomb (7)

14 A gas mist – it set off mass eye problem (11)

17 Fabric sellers spread out round river (7)

18 Right partner for tennis exchange (5)

20 Solomon’s mother with that man during Sabbath outing (9)

22 Hull timber retrieved from tributary (3)

23 Draw colour in rows (6)

24 Writer Nick oddly entering new pile (6) Down

1 Relatives at home with rules (2-4)

2 Jumped into blue carpet regularly (5)

3 Part of pitch will affect job (9)

5 Match official needed, concerning initial foul (3)

6 A number of workers are lodgers (7)

7 Second border produces grass-like plant (5)

8 Top player disrupted darts game clutching rook and knight (11)

13 Car test, then do race off for procession of vehicles (9)

15 Decide to go around a city in America (7)

16 Said to be sign of instrument (6)

17 Amount owing when I’d bet foolishly (5)

19 Apparently Richard concealed the poem (5)

21 Contentious matter is at first ignored, take to court (3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Entirely, exclusively (6)

4 Quell (6)

9 Turkish governor (3)

10 Get your bearings (9)

11 Woodshaving tool (5)

12 Money management (7)

14 Works’ do (6,5)

17 One who goes searching for food (7)

18 Understand (5)

20 Figurehugging (4-5)

22 Reverential fear (3)

23 Fermented milk product (6)

24 Make beloved (6) Down

1 Marshy (6)

2 Peruvian pack animal (5)

3 Relaxation (9)

5 Metal tea-making vessel (3)

6 Distribute (4,3)

7 Each one (5)

8 Non-hereditary title (4,7)

13 Large ape of Sumatra and Borneo (5-4)

15 Agriculture (7)

16 Come into view (6)

17 Pernickety (5)

19 At quite a rate (5)

21 Harmful tobacco element (3)