Sunderland Echo

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

7. In the film, the first of the partisans to counter the onslaught (5) 8. Used for making pupils come clean? Rubbish! (7) 9. Stuffy descriptio­n of one with no successor, we hear (7) 10. Hints about the right jaunts (5) 12. Succumbs to overwork, as the analyst does (6,4) 15. Military body to show aloofness (10) 18. He broadcasts one of the parables (5) 19. He takes his time in trivial pursuits (7) 21. The leader of the battalion commands the frontiers (7) 22. The opinions of various wives (5)

Down

1. Volleys of shots from widely spread teams (10) 2. Detached from acting assignment (5) 3. Chimney went up into the air, by the sound of it (4) 4. Aspire to reform the old country (6) 5. Get rid of freight - the plane is not to be diverted (8) 6. Temple of Jupiter is an optical illusion (7) 11. She gives voice to one strain after another (10) 13. He tries a wind instrument (8) 14. Across an oarsman's seat (7) 16. Fashionabl­e doctor has particular kind of food (6) 17. Survived the return of Lucifer (5) 20. Old priest installed in suitable vicarage (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

7. Inn (5) 8. Resigned (7) 9. Storm (7) 10. Morsel (5) 12. Contemptuo­us (10) 15. Obsessed (10) 18. Heat unit (5) 19. Echo (7) 21. Stimulated (7) 22. Tumbler (5)

Down

1. Chemist (10) 2. Impress (5) 3. Excuse (4) 4. Climb (6) 5. Imagine (8) 6. Untidy (7) 11. Nonsense (10) 13. Familiar (8) 14. Umbrage (7) 16. Rub (6) 17. Sweeten (5) 20. Wise (4)

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