DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. It can take the pressure (9) 8. Employ American

English (3) 9. What a motoring school should do for a railway worker? (5,6) 11. Indeed a song is held up (7) 12. Some are ignorant of a rule (5) 13. Votes I fixed for the old union (6) 15. Editorial chief (6) 17. Tests in English before

Xmas, perhaps (5) 18. Do well to follow (7) 20. Golly, Cilla runs after one

without reason (11) 22. For example, to love a selfimage (3) 23. Possibly lost again in a

yearning for the past (9)

Down

2. Chest expander? (3) 3. Dough or bread? (5) 4. Long angry speech from one

in commerce (6) 5. Concerning poetry? Just the

opposite (7) 6. Galloping consumption? (7,4) 7. Observing a communist

becoming angry (6,3) 10. Left the French without flying relief (11) 11. He gives out various red spines (9) 14. Poles in trouble with a Greek

character (7) 16. Customs man who is wise in

America (6) 19. Clown with a drink (5) 21. Hawaiian garland or the

French one (3)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Plan (9) 8. Beer (3) 9. Forte (6,5) 11. Rejection (7) 12. Publish (5) 13. Minister (6) 15. False (6) 17. Topic (5) 18. Eightfold (7) 20. Pacification (11) 22. Illuminated (3) 23. Abhorrent (9)

Down

2. Allow (3) 3. Spasms (5) 4. Transfix (6) 5. Teaching (7) 6. Disaster (11) 7. Hang on (9) 10. Freeze (11) 11. Esteemed (9) 14. Spire (7) 16. Senility (6) 19. Of them (5) 21. Nothing (3)