DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Moneylender is more confident after university (6)

5 Machine in laundry, erratic (5)

9 Suffer at home, remedy falling short (5)

10 Everything’s in a sort of grey exhibition hall (7)

11 A section of traffic, it yielded in town (4)

12 Profits when concern is shown (8)

16 Is an exhausted kangaroo inaccessible? (3,2,6)

18 Wasted time is bought unwisely (8)

21 Poet not allowed to enter, we hear (4)

23 Munster’s spooky bone (7)

24 Loud cry from wide circle (5)

25 The fire-raiser’s game? (5)

26 Tea urn’s brewed creation (6)

Down

2 They cut crates, use cleverly (9)

3 Hardly cooked, which is unusual (4)

4 Scrap dealer managed on barn conversion (3-3-4,3)

6 Means of measuring a sovereign (5)

7 Deserves tangled snare (5)

8 Bit of quiet, by the sound of it (5)

13 Muse about Australian runners (4)

14 Try to bring about enterprise (9)

15 Show cleaning product (4)

17 A small department is proficient (5)

19 Effort nicely back in, opening score (5)

20 Force in certain strong forward movement (5)

22 Keen student pulls up (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Single fibre (6)

5 An ___ Husband, Oscar Wilde play (5)

9 Huge rift (5)

10 Chipolata (7)

11 Launder (4)

12 Left high and dry (8)

16 Lacking pity (11)

18 Quote (8)

21 Army position (4)

23 Anti-tank gun (7)

24 Corner (5)

25 Blue-green gem (5)

26 Net, snare (6) Down

2 Fleeting, short-lived (9)

3 Zenith (4)

4 Unaffected by strong emotion (13)

6 Club for dancing (5)

7 Angrily express a different view (5)

8 Dirty look (5)

13 Barely (4)

14 Fond remembrance (9)

15 Chimney deposit (4)

17 Winter sportsman (5)

19 Fuming (5)

20 Intense pain (5)

22 Non-gloss (4)