DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Making a mistake cutting

the head off fish ( 6)

5 Work round width of

fabric ( 5)

9 I’d air differences to

produce spokes ( 5)

10 Hear sherpa becoming

nervous ( 7)

11 Not a serious quarrel but

it turns very loud ( 4)

12 Endless sham fight in public

booth ( 5,3)

16 Good partner, and rotten

relative ( 11)

18 Good scene, it could be, for

the study of heredity ( 8)

21 Whereupon garden

contained the bad smell ( 4)

23 Large deer from Rio and

Cuba ( 7)

24 Boy entering river softly ( 5)

25 Party back at bar ( 5)

26 Evelyn modelled in uniform fashion ( 6) Down

2 Tough old stick has new Ford Orion ( 3,2,4)

3 Wader – one is found on Beachy Head ( 4)

4 Understood what photographer did? ( 3,3,7)

6 Rubbish yielded body part, we heard ( 5)

7 Some calling out common language ( 5)

8 Make a speech, or

brew tea ( 5)

13 Geek appears during dinner date ( 4)

14 Where house calls

are made? ( 5,4)

15 Nearly join

platoon? ( 4)

17 Blooming Russian

returns with wife ( 5)

19 To remove all trace of epoch’s close to impossible ( 5)

20 Felix easily holds up

refugee ( 5)

22 Back in the Spanish

part of a church ( 4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Illness that affects

breathing ( 6)

5 Deep hole ( 5)

9 Royal domain ( 5)

10 Alignment of the body ( 7)

11 Arctic waters feature ( 4)

12 Native American’s axe ( 8)

16 Strange feature ( 11)

18 Cafe for a light meal ( 5,3)

21 Small insects associated

with industry ( 4)

23 List ( 7)

24 Sprightly ( 5)

25 Calcium carbonate ( 5)

26 Warders at the Tower of London ( 6)

Down

2 Hollyoaks or Emmerdale,

Emmerdale, eg ( 4,5)

3 Family residence ( 4)

4 About ( 13)

6 Consignment ( 5)

7 Mouse- like animal ( 5)

8 Hard work ( 5)

13 Land unit equal to 4840 sq yds ( 4)

14 Chivalrous ( 9)

15 Entertain in the street ( 4)

17 At an oblique angle ( 5)

19 V- shaped cut ( 5)

20 Wadebridge’s Cornish river ( 5)

22 Ring around a saint’s head ( 4)