DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES: Across
1. Amusing tennis player? (5,6) 9. Nothing in the sailing ship is architecturally flamboyant (7) 10. Turkish potentate elected a second time (5) 11. It's exorbitant - shouldn't be paid yet (5) 12. The product of a biblical man of letters (7) 13. Moral justice to which actors pay allegiance (6) 15. Synopsis that's not quite exact (6) 18. Apprehensive of this kind of system (7) 20. Discourage some of the
worldwide terrorism (5) 22. Folk literature about one French
flower (5) 23. Fruit from the mountains near
the end of the Orinoco (7) 24. Leave with the fellows by
backstreet for French regions (11)
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2. The sort of craft propelled by manpower (5) 3. A plea that could end up in Queer St.? (7) 4. Butler with a novel reputation (6) 5. North African horseman causing a shipwreck (5) 6. One discovered in the castle ruins likely to get a stretch (7) 7. This causes no acute problem in geometry (6,5) 8. Fail to emphasise what those suffering tension are (5,6) 14. Elevate with universal commendation (7) 16. Communist to record a symbol of bureaucracy (3,4) 17. One who accompanies the colonel among the rest, maybe (6) 19. Literally the last of the Greek characters (5) 21. Needing to relax, having imbibed too freely (5)
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QUICK CLUES: Across
1. Drunkenness (11) 9. Hazy (7) 10. Harden (5) 11. Sluggish (5) 12. Malady (7) 13. Guarantee (6) 15. Reckless (6) 18. Axle (7) 20. Factory (5) 22. Firearm (5) 23. Stipulation (7) 24. Rude (3-8)
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2. Illustrious (5) 3. Support (7) 4. Encroachment (6) 5. Whirl (5) 6. Luxurious (7) 7. Celebration (11) 8. Goal (11) 14. Deft (7) 16. Endorse (7) 17. Arm (6) 19. Vision (5) 21. Nimble (5)