DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Fancied gentleman indeed! (7)

5 Explorer put sailor in bed (5)

8 Redesigned La Paz square (5)

9 Walk as if drunk to shock (7)

10 Small mature herb (4)

11 Tent Dave dismantled resulted

in a feud (8)

13 Hope carotid treatment is

better for your bones? (11) 17 Readers initially bicker dreadfully about key university such as Leeds (8)

19 Be sickly sweet, containing

lots of yoghurt for starters (4)

21 It might cover you if gale

erupts loudly (3,4)

22 Missing a brass band

sound’s great energy (5)

23 One in island race,

a new giant (5) 24 Ridicule the French politician having nothing on (7) Down

1 Warehouse unfinished, almost set to topple (6)

2 Walk in cocky manner, beginning to swing dog’s tail? (7)

3 Boy hugging

a horse (4)

4 Rude but precludes

fist coming out (13)

5 Cold person manipulating nautical retailer (8)

6 Noisily snack

in bay (5)

7 Material, something

black and brown (6)

12 Ten past three (8)

14 Fashionable car hiding broken starter awaiting action (2,5)

15 For appropriate

monetary gain (6)

16 Joiner? There’s more than one in Weston-superMare! (6)

18 What you might do with a garden figure (5)

20 Look in the morning

for fertile soil (4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Morale-boosting speech (3,4)

5 Lifting apparatus (5)

8 Hidden store (5)

9 External surface (7)

10 Thieves’ spoils (4)

11 Long flowing party ribbon (8)

13 Complementary (medicine) (11)

17 Equine transport (8)

19 Petty quarrel (4)

21 Second court case (7)

22 In the midst of (5)

23 Imperial unit of weight (5)

24 Wrongful act (7)

Down

1 Preserve (6)

2 High-pitched wind

instrument (7)

3 A long time (4)

4 Intricate conundrum (6,7)

5 Till now (8)

6 Phrase with a figurative

meaning (5)

7 Hypothesis (6)

12 Show on the box (8)

14 Enhance (7)

15 Jets’ rivals in West Side

Story (6)

16 Theatrically presented (6)

18 Maths proportion (5)

20 The Red Planet (4)