Double Crossword Quick Clues: Last week’s solutions:

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues: Across

1. How’s that for charm? (6)

4. Jabber and annoy (6)

9. It may clean up a pile, at a push (6,7)

10. Manage to speak about physical education (7)

11. Foreign article about misrepresentation (5)

12. Covering the world generally, it takes a sailor back (5)

14. Takes in a form of food (5)

18. Quarters of an acre out of doors (5)

19. They take no end of towels (7)

21. A machine, and part of others (8,5)

22. Prefer the sailor to go back to the girl (6)

23. Swears it could be a sea-fish (6)

Down

1. It could get

Charon in a fix on the Styx (6)

2. He wants a good job and no mistake! (13)

3. Northern region about to hold sporting events (5)

5. Smart force ten gale (7)

6. Substitutes for the original openers (9,4)

7. Making a mistake in selling a silver ring (6)

8. Re-writing

Yeats up to the moment (2,3)

13. Not the fault of one who keeps up appearances (7)

15. One is often led to use it by mistake (6)

16. A flying machine? (5)

17. Wagnerian heroine that is about to be disposed of (6)

20. Scowl when let down (5)

Across

1. Voucher (6)

4. Scatter (6)

9. Manifold (13)

10. Curtail (7)

11. Vituperation (5)

12. Tarnish (5)

14. Instruct (5)

18. Coach (5)

19. Holy day (7)

21. Fancifully (2,11)

22. Meddle (6)

23. Attitude (6)

Down

1. Death (6)

2. Slang (13)

3. Be (5)

5. Copy (7)

6. Articulation (13)

7. Hearken (6)

8. Humorous (5)

13. Ancestry (7)

15. Rigorous (6)

16. On the move (5)

17. Alter (6)

20. Strong gust of wind (5)

CRYPTIC – Across: 1 Circular tour; 7 Siege; 8 Media; 9 Tea; 10 Countless; 11 Nation; 12 Splice; 15 Necessity; 17 Ace; 18 Elite; 19 Issue; 21 Cost the earth. Down: 1 Countenances; 2 Use; 3 Avenue; 4 Time to pay;

5 Undue; 6 False eyelash; 7 Smart; 10 Crow’s nest; 13 Irate; 14 Finish; 16 Cairo; 20 See.

QUICK – Across: 1 Acquiescence; 7 Theme; 8 Plain; 9 Mar; 10 Forgotten; 11 Thwart; 12 Billow; 15 Intrusion; 17 Air; 18 Arena; 19 Gaffe; 21 Impenetrable.

Down: 1 Asymmetrical; 2 Ire;

3 Shears; 4 Explosion; 5 Chant; 6 Unanswerable; 7 Throw; 10 Fortunate; 13 Leave; 14 Single; 16 Therm; 20 Far.