DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Not suitable for mixing paint (5) 4. Potmen? (7) 8. Does academic work - that is when the bosses are around! (7) 9. Kind of brooch was delivered with the ring (5) 10. A manner that's despicable, we hear (4) 11. Gives publicity to excursion from this runway (8) 13. One in the forefront is conceited (4) 14. They are used for shooting at the front of the ship (4) 16. Radio cablegram cheaper (8) 17. The beginnings of all sorts of blooming things (4) 20. The rule that keeps the leader of

the gang in control (5) 21. Biblically speaking, it conforms

to the letter (7) 22. Inclement weather for those at

the exhibition (7) 23 & 3Dn. Part of a cirrus cloud that

will make the same trail (5,4)

Down

1. Explicitly how verbose speeches are made! (2,2,4,5) 2. Divert a patron of the liberal arts (5) 3. See 23 Across 4. State capital needed for car pioneer (6) 5. See 19 Down 6. I will leave America's strange picture makers (7) 7. Put an end to daily information? No, it's the very latest! (4-5,4) 12. Once evil is unrestrained, this could be the result (8) 13. The reason I've got giddy round the top of the Rockies! (7) 15. Allowed to take one ship around marine destinations (6) 18. To say something extreme (5) 19 & 5Dn. Business settlement showing inflexible resolution (4,8)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Change (5) 4. Recipe (7) 8. Inclusive (7) 9. Test (5) 10. Whirlpool (4) 11. Fidelity (8) 13. Old (4) 14. Domesticated (4) 16. Journalist (8) 17. Pile (4) 20. Foreign (5) 21. Teach (7) 22. Axe (7) 23. Heading (5)

Down

1. Exemplary (5,8) 2. Tendency (5) 3. Harvest (4) 4. Hesitate (6) 5. Intelligent (8) 6. Use (7) 7. Intact (3,2,3,5) 12. Cut down (8) 13. Prescribe (7) 15. Choose (6) 18. Precise (5) 19. Injured (4)