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)