DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Snakes and ladders not

started ( 6)

4 Porters’ rooms, eg, sold off ( 6)

9 Wait with daughter

and partner ( 5)

10 Small container for a beast

crossing river ( 7)

11 Gather together for

a short prayer ( 7)

12 Second vegetable is smooth ( 5) 13 Recently, they involved

a different lawyer ( 3,5,3)

18 Regular guest holding

dispute ( 5)

20 Old Austin with

a lively manner ( 7)

22 Important dignitary

terribly angered ( 7)

23 Magic formula for

a period of time ( 5)

24 Guy lost plant ( 6) 25 Scandal taken up in soap is so good! ( 6)

Down

1 Cite article two

out loud ( 6)

2 Strangely, Ali held

biblical lady ( 7)

3 Poetic feature, note, about most of hymn ( 5)

5 Work problem for one rejecting motion ( 7)

6 Look around university to find surgical dressing ( 5)

7 Cuts timber

on board ship ( 6)

8 Religious doctor sees either half a fake ( 5,6)

14 Time for the Across bowler, and not 1 Not any person ( 6) before time ( 7) 4 Neck attire ( 3,3)

15 Linespeople ( 7) 9 Relish ( 5)

16 Anything 10 Lie ( 7) following 11 Defeat heavily ( 7) cold is got 12 Bread supplier ( 5)

13 Collector of old things ( 11) by infection ( 6)

18 Bored, out of

17 Two beginners patience ( 3,2) in the loop and 20 Self- restraint ( 7) bounce along ( 6) 22 Ethereal ( 7)

19 Hang out 23 Device that controls the round a country flow of a fluid ( 5) in Africa ( 5) 24 Fast stretch of river ( 6)

21 Girl with old rope ( 5) 25 Complicated ( 6)

QUICK CLUES Down

1 Cancel out ( 6)

2 Low- toned woodwind

instrument ( 7)

3 Immerse ( 5)

5 Month ending with

Halloween ( 7)

6 Army lorry ( 5)

7 Make urgent appeal ( 6)

8 Red tape ( 11)

14 Speared ( 7)

15 Synthetic fibre ( 7)

16 Liaison ( 6)

17 Purely, solely ( 6)

19 Unearth ( 3,2)

21 Someone keeping their

money at the bank ( 5)