DOUBLE CROSSWORD CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Heads of Maryland industrial catering enterprise find rodents (4)

3. Verifies that they're

Tory businesses (8)

8. Early sailor went around most of Hanoi (4)

9. William is able to get a bushman's teapot (5-3)

11. Paraphrased? (2,5,5)

13. Hit by industrial action? (6)

14. Like currency, it's going up (6)

17. Till tiger chasers get rounded up (4,8)

20. Possibly the entirety of infinite time (8)

21. You should get this ready on the bus or in the kitchen (4)

22. Indeed the exam is hated (8)

23. Note the return to school (4)

Down

1. Stamina's needed to work out the decimal part of a logarithm (8)

2. Uproar caused by 150 having love affair (7)

4. Rose is put around trees (6)

5. Copy clothing worn at the card table (6,4)

6. Ran endlessly at Redcar, perhaps (5)

7. Dispatched the perfume, say (4)

10. Greet and surprise the workers (5,5)

12. Doctor about to start tea with a fish (8)

15. Take out a former pamphlet (7)

16. Established the place to start playing on the sofa (6)

18. Representative of a man (5)

19. Dense metal leash (4)

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QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Choose (4)

3. Ponder (8)

8. Circle (4)

9. Supplant (8)

11. Rampant (12)

13. Neckband (6)

14. Stain (6)

17. Temporariness (12)

20. Legitimate (8)

21. Plunder (4)

22. Saviour (8)

23. Smile (4)

Down

1. Necessarily (8)

2. Coagulate (7)

4. Hateful (6)

5. Hindrance (10)

6. Repeated (5)

7. Always (4)

10. Docile (10)

12. Menace (8)

15. Animosity (7)

16. Appear (6)

18. Heap (5)

19. Move (4)