DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Work in hand at the

moment, possibly (9) 8. Beer from the Yorkshire

Dales (3) 9. Suggestion in favour of

job (11) 11. That's wrong about the Queen having milliners (7) 12. Over-bright streetcars

(5) 13. Don't accept trash (6) 15. Spanner? (6) 17. Mislay a ring inside

when slack (5) 18. He has a hand-to-mouth

existence (7) 20. Dotty and some other

people missing (3,3,5) 22. Conclusion Den works

out (3) 23. Stop fighting and call off

the marriage (9)

Down

2. Hearing aid, at least in part (3) 3. A quiet girl's writing (5) 4. Religious serviceman?

(6) 5. Revel like rioters

somehow (7) 6. Frank denial about

ordinary soldiers (4,3,4) 7. Check on income statesmen redesigned (5,4) 10. Like an exhausted jumper outside prescribed limits (3,2,6) 11. Unlucky to get a difficult script (4,5) 14. Detected a strange

descent (7) 16. Append a man who

confuses (6) 19. Intolerable when off (3,2) 21. Continually criticise a

piece of jazz music (3)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Suitable (9) 8. Possess (3) 9. Name (11) 11. Money chests (7) 12. Of them (5) 13. Immediately (2,4) 15. Squirm (6) 17. Discover (5) 18. Simplest (7) 20. Wrongly (11) 22. Bother (3) 23. Services (9)

Down

2. Unity (3) 3. Scoundrel (5) 4. Pass (6) 5. Swindler (7) 6. Satisfaction (11) 7. Burial (9) 10. Asphyxia (11) 11. Quack (9) 14. Sneering (7) 16. Rue (6) 19. Clip (5) 21. Falsehood (3)