DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Sound quality of some act I’m breaking (6)

4 Searched closely for somewhere to sleep (6)

9 Hear lyre section too soon (5)

10 It is clear that old boy has five debts (7)

11 Web designers I’d press to go wild (7)

12 Coating for a hen? (5)

13 Timid girl wrongly reviled (4-7)

18 Watch row about motorway (5)

20 Checker of accounts takes car to river (7)

22 Yearn to have a turn, but not recently (4,3)

23 Annual check-up provided with emblem (5)

24 Surreal as a dirge, calmly and evenly (6)

25 Credit is given repeatedly at the decisive moment (6)

Down

1 Belief in God exists within that group (6)

2 Dean has one drink (7)

3 Moving Her – my simple poem (5)

5 Turn and run, then develop (7)

6 Show disapproval near seabird (5)

7 Leave pudding (not small) (6)

8 Plotter to study airport’s design (11)

14 Adjust my radar beam (7)

15 Eastern nations’ landed properties (7)

16 Impassive firm engages head of technology (6)

17 Draws up gusts of wind, audibly (6)

19 Ground food beginning to cool in pit (5)

21 No end to mild protest (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Expensive (6)

4 South American cloak (6)

9 Sound made by chains or armour (5)

10 Beg (7)

11 Long dead (species) (7)

12 Musical note equal in length to four minims (5)

13 Thin potato chips (6,5)

18 Short-legged breed of dog (5)

20 Annoyance and disappointment (7)

22 Strike favourably (7)

23 Furniture timber (5)

24 Large yellowgreen tropical fruit (6)

25 Gourmet shellfish (6)

Down

1 Popular spaniel variety (6)

2 Splash (with mud) (7)

3 Compare (5)

5 Autumn month (7)

6 Greece’s largest island (5)

7 Vent, opening (6)

8 Suffice (4,3,4)

14 Gullibly (7)

15 Sincere and serious (7)

16 Be frugal (6)

17 Heavy mooring device (6)

19 Tear into pieces (3,2)

21 Convent building (5)