Sunderland Echo

DOUBLE CROSSWORD

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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. A singer eager to make a comeback (4) 8. Dolly's mini is over on the cricket field... (5,3-2) 9. ...put it in a bowl and make it smaller (8) 10. Manage to get a cloak (4) 12. Stop for a whisky (6) 14. Room for a car (6) 15. Fly one out for a

robbery (6) 17. Was concerned about five

getting cut up (6) 18. Let it stand a different test (4) 19. Talc I may spill – that's a disaster (8) 21. Import coat, perhaps, for a

fellow countryman (10) 22. Consumes some cheese at

supper (4)

Down

2. Tactless about nicer

diets (10) 3. Some fantastic wine (4) 4. The toboggan broke his leg (6) 5. Put shy characters out to discover a disease (6) 6. A mail-round? (8) 7. A girl from Cannes? (4) 11. Religious man in favour of examinatio­n for worker (10) 13. There's not much to learn for these dances (3-5) 16. Shy cat put out by boats (6) 17. Firm getting two pounds that

is for a dog (6) 18. Container for wine (4) 20. A small amount of money or

time, possibly (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Urge (4) 8. Single (10) 9. Disturbanc­e (8) 10. Mask (4) 12. Whine (6) 14. Strip (6) 15. Phlegmatic (6) 17. Secure (6) 18. Exclude (4) 19. Deceit (8) 21. Youth (10) 22. Quiet (4)

Down

2. Voyeur (7,3) 3. Trick (4) 4. Wonder (6) 5. Fashioned (6) 6. Forage (8) 7. Image (4) 11. Unbecoming (10) 13. Flighty (8) 16. Hate (6) 17. Tool (6) 18. Elliptical (4) 20. Friends (4)

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