DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Item of cutlery turned

onto peas (8)

6 Is boyhood regularly

at London area? (4)

8 Conviction for putting large

one in meat (6)

9 Makes beer, we’re told,

causing injury (6)

10 Man with a rubbish,

burning affliction (4,4) 13 Look for and find king (4)

14 Touching end of one that’s

nailed (9)

17 Stay for beginning of party (4)

18 On the way back, encountered

large rocks inside cable (8)

19 Only me to trust (6)

21 Wanderers finding damson

in distress? (6)

23 Unemployed star, they say (4) 24 Drink agents knocked back outside hotel (8) Down

2 Team brings the

Spanish level (6)

3 His kit contains

snow-shoe (3)

4 Stale tart containing scrambled egg mostly, missing the mark (3,6)

5 Arrest when prohibition is about (3)

6 Having a crush on soft drink with gin mixer (9)

7 Accommodation small, claimed by Ritz? (6)

11 Last part of story needing silence, we hear (9)

12 It’s not easy on vessel for one with rigid views (9)

15 Heartless father, one to put a stop to comrade (6)

16 Burden with

bicycle seat (6)

20 Why the words

finished OK (3)

22 You might find a dull-sounding welcome here (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 In a rational way (8)

6 National emblem (4)

8 Reflexive pronoun (6)

9 Father or mother (6)

10 Unfair, biased (3-5)

13 Scut (4)

14 Sweet that is hard on the outside

and semi-soft inside (5,4)

17 Abominable Snowman (4)

18 Taunting (8)

19 Troops’ assigned

quarters (6)

21 Cause affection (6)

23 In a sluggish manner (4)

24 Frame of mind (8)

Down

2 Length (6)

3 Look at (3)

4 Totally perplexed (9)

5 Annoying bark (3)

6 From personal

experience (5-4)

7 Female relative (6)

11 In particular (9)

12 Exclusion (9)

15 Posterior (6)

16 Unexpressed

(thought) (6)

20 Hot brew (3)

22 Morse code

element (3)