Double Crossword

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues:

Across

4. He has connections, relatively speaking (7)

8. Part of the day in which there’s no glory (6)

9. A new crop, it yields fruit (7)

10. Female relatives of a pawnbroker? (6)

11. Having nothing particular to do, I’d fish (6)

12. Odd customs about Eastern dresses (8)

18. The odds are that it’s almost lunchtime (3-2-3)

20. I smoke a strange mixture, being a northerner (6)

21. Healthy transport in decay (6)

22. Blooming animal insolence (7)

23. Wrongly blamed for the uproar (6)

24. Leaves a just reward (7)

Down

1. Presumably one should skate over it lightly (4,3)

2. Concentrated on a point in tennis perhaps (7)

3. Foreign office desk? (6)

5. Shut up (8)

6. Runs out of lighters (6)

7. A charger – and what he charges? (6)

13. It’s damp around the hill for a traveller (8)

14. There’s a lot to be said for being this! (7)

15. Steam-whistle stop? (3-4)

16. A wild horse on land (6)

17. Fine fabric used in making suites (6)

19. Minor scoop for the nursery (6)

Quick Clues:

Across

4. Dim (7)

8. Exempt (6)

9. Amaze (7)

10. Confederated (6)

11. Infuse (6)

12. Succession (8)

18. Endurance (8)

20. Border (6)

21. Aid (6)

22. Haggle (7)

23. Maintain (6)

24. Rational (7)

Down

1. Fantastic (7)

2. Rival (7)

3. Fabricate (6)

5. Perambulator (8)

6. Select (6)

7. Sour (6)

13. Short beard (8)

14. Invigorate (7)

15. Colonist (7)

16. Lubricate (6)

17. Puzzle (6)

19. Affront (6)