DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Muffler can leave mark on fathead (5) 4. Rashly identified? (7) 8. Feeling egghead needs movement (7) 9. Where cricketers can make mistakes? (5) 10. Leap to make excuse (4) 11. Deception taken in by the pupils, presumably (8) 13. Put a levy on one cab

(4) 14. Do business in timber (4) 16. Tuition in transport (8) 17. An area to care about (4) 20. Decorate part instead or none of it (5) 21. Former single period (3-4) 22. Deceive with awfully mad

lies (7) 23. Pay for entertainment to try

to cure (5)

Down

1. Too wide an assertion of demand on brushwork (8,5) 2. A 50-to-1 meeting on its own

(5) 3. Thwart with silver paper (4) 4. 45 and unmarried (6) 5. Not clear that the old boys

had been made better (8) 6. Unimportant court

examination about four (7) 7. Release from ties of

forthcoming marriage? (13) 12. A place for swapping, e.g.

telephone calls? (8) 13. Unruly poets at containers

for beverage (7) 15. Reveal United Nations pen

(6) 18. We need the force, with

capital, to fight it (5) 19. Made a loan fast (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Bury (5) 4. Lower (7) 8. Great joy (7) 9. Pick-me-up (5) 10. Excuse (4) 11. Awful (8) 13. Stag (4) 14. Labyrinth (4) 16. Harshness (8) 17. Pain (4) 20. Canal boat (5) 21. Blow up (7) 22. Corrected (7) 23. Urge (5)

Down

1. Unutterable (13) 2. Commerce (5) 3. Destroy (4) 4. Peril (6) 5. Fatherly (8) 6. Exalt (7) 7. Reticence (13) 12. Help (8) 13. Varied (7) 15. Go to (6) 18. Arc (5) 19. Applaud (4)