DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

6. Follows the proposer in support in a very short time (7) 7. Heard signal for waiters to line up (5) 9. Frightened with lots of blows? (5) 10. Valour needed for us to live to be 100? (7) 12. No charge for stonework for secret society practice (11) 14. Best course time in past

achievements (5,6) 18. Frugal use of article in

season (7) 19. Novelist as robust... (5) 21 . ... as Poe could be a fabulous

writer (5) 22. There's nothing in a sailing vessel being lavishly decorated (7)

Down

1. Material from a pit, dug up (5) 2. Lodger loses article at the frontier (6) 3. She follows 20 in the country (3) 4. Nothing under two pints of

size for paper (6) 5. Going round a starving country (7) 8. Love affair can trouble in European capital (7) 11. Maritime circle that will wither? (7) 13. Producer of harvest in the fall (7) 15. Farm vehicle atop box (6) 16. Common sense concerning a

boy (6) 17. Sum to make sense (3,2) 20. Is able to preserve in metal

container (3)

QUICK CLUES: Across

6. A few (7) 7. Cringe (5) 9. Change (5) 10. Admit (7) 12. Earthly (11) 14. Worsen (11) 18. Hide (7) 19. Forbidden (5) 21. Glad (5) 22. Feathers (7)

Down

1. Domain (5) 2. Ebb (6) 3. Blackguard (3) 4. Agree (6) 5. Progress (7) 8. Spouse (7) 11. Coming (7) 13. Divestiture (7) 15. But (6) 16. Shock (6) 17. Evade (5) 20. Cunning (3)