DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1, 18Dn and 8Dn. What those who are particularly successful in running slimming courses do! (4,2,3,3,2,3,4) 3. Strangely respects tokens

of sovereignty (8) 9. Shout loudly what used to

be staked (7) 10. A quarter always cut off (5) 11. Local types I'd converted in a domineering way (12) 13. Purchasing power common to an associated group of states! (6) 15. Bumble bee encircles a lad in distress (6) 17. Curses a way of speaking

among men (12) 20. Heather is partly

Americanised (5) 21. It means various occupants (7) 22. Putting one's foot down when doing business round the East (8) 23. See 19 Down

Down

1. Is prone to make solid new arrangement (4,4) 2. They keep a tight hold on immoral habits (5) 4. Pledge oneself to perpetrate a crime (6) 5. One to get licked before becoming enveloped! (7,5) 6. Make a speech up, having been abused (7) 7. We hear it makes a cut tender when touched (4) 8. See 1 Across 12. Maintains a point, but it's misrepresented in the press somehow (8) 14. The greediness with which Virginia tucked into a kind of pudding! (7) 16. It is twice put up by an outstanding artist (6) 18. See 1 Across 19 and 23Ac. Being uneasily active

without sleep (8)