DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Outsize vehicles at

Hollywood ceremony ( 6)

4 Imagine dropping one

obscure riddle ( 6)

9 Test model currency ( 5)

10 Letters mailed to a

remote settlement? ( 7)

11 Male can somehow show physical restraint ( 7) 12 Bad place offering initial

salutation ( 5)

13 Alphabetically

effortless? ( 2,4,2,3)

18 Quickly go round leaky

ends of sea creature ( 5)

20 Wrap up, even perhaps

cut ( 7)

22 Charm of another name

belonging to us ( 7)

23 Delivered although had not

been spent ( 5) 24 Thrown to journalist

on ship ( 6)

25 Private remarks from assistants holding squadron leader ( 6)

Down

1 Prompt me into

changes ( 2,4)

2 Conservative to listen out for patrons ( 7)

3 In barrel I concealed

a thing of the past ( 5)

5 Cuts on chest

treated ( 7)

6 Develop large

menacing sound ( 5)

7 Novelist restyles

our hat ( 6)

8 Tell any hero about single person looking for love ( 6,5)

14 Authorise putting damaged prop in the avenue ( 7)

15 Adored little rodent back up in garden plot ( 7)

16 Increase pulse and

get optimistic ( 6)

17 Suit those covered

in soil? ( 6)

19 Lots of burdens ( 5)

21 Saves damaged

urns ( 5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Implant ( 6)

4 One who watches ( 6)

9 Candy ___, fairground

confection ( 5)

10 Treat tyrannically ( 7)

11 Aerosol ( 7)

12 Totally bare ( 5)

13 Fortified wine from

Harvey’s, eg ( 5,6)

18 Exude perspiration ( 5)

20 Mosquito- borne

disease ( 7)

22 Intermediary ( 7)

23 Give the cold shoulder

to ( 5) 24 Warm hand- covering ( 6)

25 Enter ( 4,2)

Down

1 Swarm over ( 6)

2 Scrubbing pad ( 7)

3 Rough and scratchy

( voice) ( 5)

5 Trespass ( 7)

6 Mollusc ( 5)

7 Dwell ( 6)

8 Food ( 11)

14 Public performer ( 7)

15 Change direction ( 7)

16 Place of safety ( 6)

17 Old large heavy gun ( 6)

19 Precise ( 5)

21 Capture with a rope ( 5)