DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Stop believer shielding son (6)

4 To shop around for pics (6)

9 Almost the shape of eggs (3)

10 Giving an account about wine

and gin cocktail (9)

11 Grim cowboy film you and

I left (5)

12 Leo’s sin involved his mate (7) 14 Shopkeeper replacing basic

cotton (11)

17 Best-kept diet, it’s awful! (7)

18 Complete nonsense as

work schedules (5)

20 Urban slab blocks noise

and sound (9)

22 Time in the ranks (3)

23 One exposed in dust that’s

shaken up (6)

24 Point of view of a quiet group outside (6)

Down

1 Sleepy, caught up in

play’s wordiness (6)

2 Series of musical

notes to ascend (5)

3 How old a psychiatrist is, with deflation! (9)

5 That woman in

haberdashery (3)

6 Muscle contractions easily begin during journeys (7)

7 Audible magnitude of sounds of relief (5)

8 Formal request for

diligence (11)

13 Len’s worse off not belonging to someone (9)

15 Asked for it

neat? (7)

16 Angled a wooden strip around base of column (6)

17 Symbol to

understand (5)

19 Subject of article

on me (5)

21 Help sister over stile, initially (inits)(3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Croquet stick (6)

4 Radio code word that precedes tango (6)

9 Male relative (3)

10 Rueful (9)

11 Original (5)

12 Wide

river-mouth (7)

14 Lost in

thought (11)

17 Don’t say a

word (4,3) 18 Craggy (5)

20 Topple (a regime) (9)

22 Self-esteem (3)

23 Holdall for sports

equipment (3-3)

24 Shredded

(cheese, eg) (6)

Down

1 Change (6)

2 Gatekeeper’s

house (5)

3 Soil-dwelling

invertebrate (9)

5 Electrically charged

particle (3) 6 Traditionally

brewed beer (4,3)

7 Fittingly (5)

8 Roadside device triggered by fast cars (5,6)

13 First-rate (3-6)

15 Vote back into political office (2-5)

16 Secondary

route (6)

17 Telephone box (5)

19 Play unfairly (5)

21 Earl Grey,

for example (3)