DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across 6. Alternatively sited in branch town (7) 7. A backward numskull is unconcerned (5) 9. Country where father takes part in vice (5) 10. Big, lean rough

European (7) 12. Where stealing goods brings higher levels? (4-7) 14. A purposeful glance at

the dictionary? (7,4) 18. Muttered that mother

was losing blood (7) 19 & 22Ac. Toss for ends? (5,2,5) 21. Answer again with strand

of yarn (5) 22. See 19 Across

Down

1. Puss half touches shy

animal (5) 2. Shine in language? (6) 3. What man needs to cope (3) 4. Settle on a lamp, perhaps

(6) 5. Coin ace used to get drug (7) 8. Lies and disclaimers (7) 11. Dog not in 9 gets line out (7) 13. Committed to substitute

position indeed! (7) 15. Marriageable perhaps in

blue (6) 16. A prose rendering of

musical dramas (6) 17. Grown-up in the road,

ultimately (5) 20. The law has one, too, to

shoulder (3)

QUICK CLUES: Across

6. Nervy (7) 7. Navy (5) 9. Glad (5) 10. Cowardly (7) 12. Deception (11) 14. In vogue (11) 18. Dwarfish (7) 19. Elude (5) 21. Beneath (5) 22. Touch (7)

Down

1. Essential (5) 2. Torpor (6) 3. Endeavour (3) 4. Gratify (6) 5. Mirror (7) 8. Barbarous (7) 11. Review (3,4) 13. Separation (7) 15. Delay (6) 16. Flippancy (6) 17. Nip (5) 20. Plunder (3)