DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Carelessly patching evening
hat (8)
6 Family insignia displays
weaponry (4)
8 Sets forth for America? (6)
9 First payment on the rent
will satisfy (6)
10 Loss of position when
depressed before autumn (8)
13 Hurry to see small missile (4) 14 Run my bath another way? It’s probably untrue (5,4)
17 Very green, not starting
to become pink (4)
18 They last out being
surreptitious (8)
19 Preserve lotion on
extremes of eardrum (6)
21 Cold place for larynx,
but not very old (6) 23 Horse’s gait needing time to go off (4)
24 Be jealous, be sort
of rugged (8)
Down
2 Is torn about programmes’ musical starts (6)
3 Shack closed, not
opening (3)
4 Actors absent on Sunday with those shipwrecked (9)
5 Dad’s kind of
music? (3)
6 Locate and destroy, based on hearsay (9)
7 One hoarding last of lucre makes game bid (6)
11 Point made another
way (5-4)
12 Plodding to wood circle, not right (9)
15 Bird in peaceful maritime environment (6)
16 We reversed, leaving the wrong crowd (6) Crowd around some kangaroos (3) Bird taken in by lemurs (3) 20 22
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Without pressure (8)
6 Pass the tongue over (4)
8 Exact (4,2)
9 Clear (of charges) (6)
10 Landing strip (8)
13 In a slothful manner (4)
14 Opposed to accepted
belief (9)
17 Smile radiantly (4)
18 Ruined (stockings) (8)
19 Dish of nuts, cereals
and fruit (6)
21 Summon (6)
23 Accustom to solid food (4)
24 Tendon (8)
Down
2 Mealtime clothes
protector (6)
3 No longer in the game (3)
4 Predatory
sea-creature (6,3)
5 Genetic material (inits) (3)
6 Convert (assets) into
cash (9)
7 Nippy, cold (6)
11 Member of a secret
society (9)
12 Wasting away (9)
15 Show unwillingness (6)
16 Consider (6)
20 Speak ___ of, criticise (3)
22 Get-up-and-go (3)