DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Eat nuts, perhaps, at critical

moment? (6)

4 Globe in hardened water ice (6)

9 Noisily drink with slight

pressure (5)

10 Incorrectly name the

marsh gas (7)

11 I’m beside factory producing

medical insert (7) 12 Overturn object after getting

out of bed (2-3)

13 Dawn departure is

unauthorised absence (6,5)

18 Vessel entering Zambia or

Tanzania (5)

20 Free fermented lager –

ta! (2,5)

22 Not to be seen, though just

arrived? (7)

23 Turn trade without a penny (5) 24 Hear the writer’s

amphibian is tiny (6)

25 East African’s knowledge reversed ‘no’ vote (6)

Down

1 Funny sulphur interior of the universe (6)

2 One who seizes power from frantic pursuer (7)

3 Put your hands round

father for a drink (5)

5 Stick out if badly troubled with large omission (7)

6 Support British

competition (5)

7 Attempt to carry

object in (6)

8 Scatterbrained MP eyed death suspiciously (5-6)

14 Closest Eastern

muddle (7)

15 Tray I’ve smashed for theatrical entertainment (7)

16 This much champagne sees mother adopting antelope (6)

17 Wizard flyer (6)

19 Dispute over a

northern tree (5)

21 I sell off cotton

material (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Stand firm against (6)

4 Saint’s day, carnival (6)

9 Literary kind (5)

10 Hero-worship (7)

11 Jumbled letters puzzle (7)

12 Bottomless pit (5)

13 Padded and covered (11)

18 Rocky shelf (5)

20 Disadvantageous (7)

22 Collection of public records (7)

23 Small cove (5)

24 Covered soup dish (6)

25 Joining of companies (6)

Down

1 West Indian-style music (6)

2 Device for artificial tanning (7)

3 Take the wheel (5)

5 Cause to be alone (7)

6 Piquant, hot (5)

7 Relaxed (2,4)

8 Material indicating acidity or

alkalinity (6,5)

14 Former (3-4)

15 Sound muffler (7)

16 Flexible, tractable (6)

17 Medieval court fool (6)

19 Colour scheme (5)

21 Sound of speech (5)