DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Contemptible when in a rash? (6) 4. Suit for men in digs (6) 9. Party for levelling out class differences? (6,7) 10. Possibly trees to favour (7) 11. Cited faulty decree (5) 12. Serpent always wants more, it seems (5) 14. Level reached in acting

development? (5) 18. Trews to obtain by force

(5) 19. Be match for

Shakespearean tyrant (7) 21. Not one to enjoy a close

relationship (7,6) 22. Somehow stay in good health

mentally (6) 23. Finish in attempt to be

fashionable (6)

Down

1. Is great unhappiness the lot of the skinflint? (6) 2. Make parson succeed in

converting defendant (7,6) 3. Allowed because included the smallest (5) 5. Such a gift will do for now (7) 6. In which the instructor won't wear the wrong gear (7,6) 7. Spectacles help one to aim, of course (6) 8. It's odd, yet mostly the opposite (5) 13. Take out former pamphlet (7) 15. Root crops from Scandinavia

(6) 16. It may produce friendly

relationship (5) 17. Soft sweetener is bogus (6) 20. Singers provide rich variety

round circle (5)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Cook (6) 4. Hits (6) 9. Additional (13) 10. Diminish (7) 11. Symbol (5) 12. Hinge (5) 14. Avarice (5) 18. Precise (5) 19. Tooth (7) 21. Unoriginality (13) 22. Sore (6) 23. Concord (6)

Down

1. By (6) 2. Enlargement (13) 3. Dense (5) 5. Giant (7) 6. Ingratitude (13) 7. Maxim (6) 8. Drive (5) 13. Atrocity (7) 15. Oppose (6) 16. Shy (5) 17. Gaol (6) 20. Pure (5)