DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Cut back on wave from south (6)

4 Flower at awfully rich do (6)

9 Twists air currents (5)

10 Puzzle made of puns, only

endless (7)

11 Guided by that woman

but worn out (7)

12 Attorney dropping wife

for chicken? (5) 13 Confused reps hire imp top job! (11)

18 One who tends in professional life to lack energy (5)

20 Let a French doctor change

and roll along (7)

22 Postpone day in France and

turn around (7)

23 Removed shawl from

The Chase host Bradley (5) 24 Extra part of journey

takes so long (3,3)

25 Not even established most strange! (6)

Down

1 Given stitches, successfully completed (4,2) 2 Person rearing cattle dashed and caught her (7) 3 Stingy hoarder causing endless suffering (5) 5 Needles in right joints (7)

6 Pound found in religious bush (5) 7 Run away from a lot of sand (6) 8 Chance commercial involved in nearly ninety rewrites (11)

14 Copper taken in by

joyful messenger (7)

15 Spoil if glued in

wrongly (7)

16 Person running the show to ring for TV’s Davina (6)

17 Boiling when the rod

melted (3-3)

19 Change then dance

again? (5)

21 Quins wield... not odd

if single (5)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Pass comment (6)

4 Black suit of cards (6)

9 Stupid, foolish (5)

10 Pickled herring fillet (7)

11 Muddy sound (7)

12 Man-made material (5)

13 Vehicle selling cones and

lollies (3-5,3)

18 Prohibited by custom or

religion (5)

20 According to the facts (7)

22 Sack containing letters (7)

23 Travels by air (5)

24 Tolerate (6)

25 Generously, willingly (6)

Down

1 Put up a fight (6)

2 Shelled creature (7)

3 Of a king or queen (5)

5 Religious traveller (7)

6 Indistinctly (5)

7 Lying face upwards (6)

8 Analysis of historical

remains (11)

14 Jemmy (7)

15 Attribute (7)

16 Hinder (6)

17 Fixed (expression) (6)

19 Window shade (5)

21 Be a success (2,3)