DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Bustle around, it’s implied (6)

4 Gossip at length with

bounder (6)

9 What may do some

hearing! (3)

10 Girl speaker in temporary

bans (9)

11 Number eleven comeback

by neutral president (5) 12 Notification of ebbing river

included (7)

14 Create new action as

scientist (5,6)

17 Smooth-talking person,

female singer holding arm (7)

18 Opening passage trio

performed about noon (5)

20 Temple too misshapen for

Native American emblem (5,4)

22 Look south-east, then east (3) 23 Use me the wrong

way with tactic (6)

24 Fools appearing before southern judge (6)

Down

1 Insane sort of

colour (6)

2 Cleaning compound for tin soldiers when trapped (5)

3 It’s minty lamb

cooked on fruit (5,4)

5 Fitting carpet at

intervals (3)

6 Snack is thing eaten by donkey in Spain (7)

7 In part wangled

nasal sound (5)

8 Place for artist to work and entertain? (7,4)

13 Weird son’s unruly and boisterous behaviour (9)

15 Found celebrity

put in lift (5,2)

16 Absorbent cloths wet so left, perhaps (6)

17 Share that is for

appealing child (5)

19 Briefly experience

discernment (5)

21 Tick nothing low (3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Formally charge (6)

4 Sour, stale (6)

9 Old style of bath (3)

10 Small letters, not

capitals (5,4)

11 Craze, obsession (5)

12 Indication of the existence

of disease (7)

14 Cylindrical firework (5,6)

17 Drastic (7)

18 Bands of criminals (5)

20 Initiator of a fight (9)

22 Liquid mineral (3) 23 Flap under the shoelaces (6)

24 Bring back to favour (6) Down

1 Fall, in America (6)

2 Style of boot-heel (5)

3 Knowing your own

character (4-5)

5 Atmosphere (3)

6 By the sea (7)

7 Sleeper’s vision (5)

8 Emmental or Gruyère, eg (5,6)

13 Collection of wild animals (9)

15 Eight-sided shape (7)

16 Place of refuge (6)

17 Precise (5)

19 Not a soul (2-3)

21 French word for ‘water’ (3)