DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Partly compares ultimate effect (6)

5 Use an aerosol on flowers (5)

9 Come together during emergency (5)

10 Odd sort on odd platform (7)

11 Some lasso horses in an area of London (4)

12 Garment appears when hand

is taken from tissue (8)

16 Climber getting enumeration mixed up (11)

18 Person of note with the ability to calm? (8)

21 Section of paras appears at the earliest opportunity (inits)(4)

23 Metal cover protecting the sewer (7)

24 Chap in charge is frenzied (5)

25 Rely on financial institution (5)

26 It’s handy for one whose digs are small (6)

Down

2 Subterranean burrower makes hot warmer (9)

3 Employed nothing new (4)

4 Competition for horses they venerated, put off (5-3,5)

6 Repair bed (5)

7 An appealing angle (5)

8 Accumulate a service (5)

13 Coin dispatched, say (4)

14 Sense nice style, basically (2,7)

15 Suspicious about contents of wonton (2,2)

17 Dot should start to kiss (5)

19 Or surround the alternative (5)

20 Forcibly moves liquid with light shoes (5)

22 After midnight, doctor finds bullets (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Be frugal (6)

5 Musical set in Argentina (5)

9 Vast sea between continents (5)

10 Christmas chocolate cake (4,3)

11 Chop up (4)

12 Beating (8)

16 Reliably (11)

18 Lack, deficiency (8)

21 Tread (4)

23 Stretchy material (7)

24 Cut of meat from the leg of a lamb (5)

25 Greenish gemstone (5)

26 Large cupboard for storing food (6)

Down

2 Getting louder, musically (9)

3 Hostelries (4)

4 Relating to the mind (13)

6 Jumper with a triangular head opening (1-4)

7 Barb of a rose (5)

8 Shallow river crossings (5)

13 Cheats, diddles (4)

14 Restless, anxious (3,2,4)

15 Engrossed (4)

17 Gave a lecture (5)

19 Cut in two (5)

20 Out of practice (5)

22 Russia’s Ivan, eg (4)