DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. It's no good without Bob (8)

5. A group of fliers returning from a great distance (4)

9. Halt the return of containers (4)

10. Groups of soldiers also in schemes (8)

11. A sign that corn is lacking

from the island (5)

12. Endorse the first letter (7)

13. There's no telling where it might lead to (6,7)

18. Unskilled, having wrongly constructed the pier next (8)

19. Has to be sown out (4)

20. One can't remember

suffering from this (7)

21. Back at sea? (5)

22. Not the sole command for

dogs! (4)

23. Daily set out in a stable

manner (8)

Down

2. To argue about a cruel act (7)

3. Ruler, English politician and the Queen get nothing right (7)

4. Arrogant, finding more pints flat, perhaps (4-9)

6. State it's an excessively ornate one (7) 7. Determination to sort out (7)

8. Takes off football kits (6)

13. Vegetable Pinchas cooked (7)

14. Perhaps lees can purify (7)

15. Reveal a former stance (6)

16. Seen to have been marked (7)

17. Al Green becomes an officer

(7)