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Double Crossword

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Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

Cryptic Clues: Across

1. Display of kicking against being in favour of trial month? (7,5)

7. The right friend to rouse (5)

8. It’s flat either way (5)

9. Mischievou­s child looks like one politician! (3)

10. Is she relatively sure to be a target? (4,5)

11. Alternativ­ely bargain in severe trial (6)

12. Was the two-step seen at the tea party? (6)

15. Got fatter and possibly old and futile (6,3)

17. Unselfish little being at heart (3)

18. This animal is shy and half puma (5)

19. Concede he was an American general (5)

21. It helps when the wicked get nothing, apparently (3,2,3,4)

Down

1. It is presumably not held by a private secretary (6,6)

2. Slippery customer could be electric (3)

3. Irksome court work? (6)

4. Also still a hopeless cry (3,2,4)

5. In this epic, a village gets hypercriti­cal censure (5)

6. Where the farmer keeps his game? (7,5)

7. Quick attack around

Peterhead (5)

10. Consequent­ly rues atlas being ruined (2,1,6)

13. Doctors do – and, it’s worth having! (5)

14. Sumerian capital should be looked for (6)

16. Faithful ally gets upset about nothing (5)

20. Article you and I receive in reverence (3)

Quick Clues: Across

1. Pedagogue (12)

7. Garb (5)

8. Impelled (5)

9. Suitable (3)

10. Break up (9)

11. Left desolate (6)

12. Wriggle (6)

15. Maze (9)

17. Choose (3)

18. Killed (5)

19. Scope (5)

21. Obligation (12)

Down

1. Sleepwalke­r (12)

2. Poem (3)

3. Maltreat (6)

4. Fastidious (9)

5. Rowing crew (5)

6. Accidental (12)

7. Put off (5)

10. Submission (9)

13. Apparition (5)

14. Baby (6)

16. Intellect (5)

20. Defective (3)

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