DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

3. Has this bird twelve husks to each foot? (9)

8. Lad eats 500 and becomes a corpse (4)

9. Snap quickly into a meal (9)

10. Eastern team scored first, but were kicked out (6)

11. Debar untidy whiskers (5)

14. Just claim heading (5)

15. Stingy fellows devour article (4)

16. Suitable cargo boat for a vagrant (5)

18. Inviolable instrument included (4)

20. A flower came into being (5)

21. Slain by accident with pointed fasteners (5)

24. Rope with noose at rail in knots (6)

25. No bat, mind, is used in this game (9)

26. Excursion visiting ancient city (4)

27. Vulgar self-assertion more than impetuosity (9)

Down

1. The thing I have is something to aim for (9)

2. Modern speech showing dependence on drugs? (9)

4. It's difficult to be really rigid (4)

5. Trumped-up affair about a picture? (5)

6. Ailing member of company? (6)

7. Initially chestnut tree brings in the money (4)

9. Hat taken from scribe returned later (5)

11. Carries animals (5)

12. He expects interest to be shown of course (9)

13. A catalogue of creative imagination? (9)

17. Father goes on horseback – heathenish! (5)

19. Priests admit 1000 on August 1st (6)

22. Communist got up at 9.50 (5)

23. Not a bad festival (4)

24. Much may come under the hammer (4)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

3. Aristocratic (9)

8. Gather in (4)

9. Teacher (9)

10. Required (6)

11. Shatter (5)

14. Incapacitated (5)

15. Ireland (4)

16. Long (5)

18. Frigid (4)

20. Dodge (5)

21. Smallest (5)

24. Oppose (6)

25. Saviour (9)

26. Revolve (4)

27. Intellectual power (9)

Down

1. Articulate (9)

2. Cascade (9)

4. Copied (4)

5. Kingdom (5)

6. Pick (6)

7. Adjoin (4)

9. Trivial (5)

11. Begin (5)

12. Merry (9)

13. Contrite (9)

17. Not at all (5)

19. Stop (6)

22. Charm (5)

23. Surrender (4)

24. Hire out (4)