DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Large meal with soft paste ( 6)

5 Composed by

repetition, say ( 5)

9 Cyril rewrote part of song ( 5)

10 Casual break around

soft bone ( 7)

11 Pretty keen to imprison

rascal ( 4)

12 Camp seen prepared

for astronauts ( 8) 16 Even breaks breaking,

and continuing to do so? ( 5- 6)

18 Cattle thieves’ leaders surround the thoroughfare ( 8)

21 Spell out loud to unsettle ( 4)

23 Get involved with stone

feature ( 5,2)

24 Confuse Dad with

the French ( 5)

25 During Lent European

has banquet ( 5) 26 Went round in circles when journalist passed away ( 6)

Down

2 Areas kept free

for tropical birds ( 9)

3 Get front off

to firmly mark ( 4)

4 An escaped pair to perform vanishing act ( 13)

6 Rugby Union fellow’s not right making money in Delhi ( 5)

7 Silk fabric some sell, utterly reversible ( 5)

8 The Spanish took food to raise spirits ( 5)

13 Morse, perhaps,

back in the dock! ( 4)

14 Roughly move bloke when given name ( 9)

15 Throw vegetable

over part of ship ( 4)

17 Woman to assist, mostly, in French ( 5)

19 Join up in

retinue ( 5)

20 Levy suggested

for small nails ( 5) 22 Placed clock face

upside down ( 4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Practice session ( 4- 2) 5 Seize illegally ( 5)

9 Angry ( 5)

10 Kerosene light ( 3,4) 11 Religious ceremony ( 4) 12 From the days of an empire ( 8) 16 Fastening on a lasso to enable the rope to be tightened quickly ( 7,4) 18 Extend, stretch ( 8) 21 Having no hair ( 4) 23 Daytime theatrical performance ( 7) 24 Defence to a criminal charge ( 5) 25 Blue- green gem ( 5) 26 Capturing ( 6)

Down

2 Complete change

in opinion ( 5- 4)

3 Military dining room ( 4)

4 Formal expression of

opinion, judgement ( 13)

6 Hairdresser’s shop or

beauty parlour ( 5)

7 Rhythmic Cuban dance ( 5)

8 Orange- yellow pigment ( 5)

13 Horse race run at Epsom ( 4)

14 Detachment, quarantine ( 9)

15 Small winged insect ( 4)

17 Off the cuff ( 2- 3)

19 Escape from ( 5)

20 Filthy ( 5)

22 Stain, blemish ( 4)