DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Ingenious device,

specially tagged (6)

4 Deserter held by US soldiers

for nothing (6)

9 Settee – first-rate until now (2,3)

10 Title is arranged for member

of select group (7)

11 Corsets sorted out for

chaperones (7)

12 Drain off at lowest point (5) 13 Infantryman is twelve-inch

ant (4,7)

18 Disrupted fast female

workforce (5)

20 Figure twelve surrounds

horse (7)

22 Cat by water in

French castle (7)

23 Pulse in broth, stewed (5)

24 Catch out parent (6)

25 It’ll increase reactions

in a frenzy, merely (6)

Down

1 Big cuts she’s

seen in fuel (6)

2 Truth about feat

cod performed (2,5)

3 Dread losing first letter – it’s a mistake (5)

5 Ruled broadcast

was wet (7)

6 Sampled first of roughage in new diet (5)

7 Sent up in this manner, it assumes this kind of humour (6)

8 Small amount thrown out of Naples (11)

14 Material for Greek character by Welsh river (7)

15 Before time, holding keys with much enthusiasm (7)

16 Audibly groan with

essential soul (6)

17 Powerless, locked in sauna, bleeding (6)

19 Separate a bit (5)

21 Refusal of weight

unacceptable (3,2)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Blood vessel (6)

4 Crucial time (6)

9 Hushed, still (5)

10 Deafeningly (7)

11 Plunge (7)

12 ___ Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford/Paul Newman film (5)

13 Workers’ rep (4,7)

18 Dots of land (5)

20 Largest primate, native of the

African rainforests (7)

22 Barely manage to live (7)

23 Woman getting married (5)

24 Tribute paid at a funeral (6)

25 German WWII code (6) Down

1 Find innocent (6)

2 Great victory (7)

3 Helicopter blade (5)

5 Coloured arc in the sky (7)

6 Woman’s garment (5)

7 Old reaping tool (6)

8 Carry out research on (11)

14 Putting in the mail (7)

15 Moving along on wheels (7)

16 Absorbent paper (6)

17 Image recorder (6)

19 Written slander (5)

21 Red-breasted songbird (5)