DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

3. Satisfactory motive for a charity, for example (4,5) 8. They disapprove of one's conversion (4) 9. A blow for

commerce? (5,4) 10. Poor shots at changing routes? (6) 11. Cures odd leash (5) 14. Ring region for a type of gas (5) 15. Having a limp fabric? (4) 16. Fish traps set up (5) 18. Light piece of wood? (4) 20. Girl with nothing, as it

happens (5) 21. The French doctors

behaving like sheep? (5) 24. She may raise people's

spirits (6) 25. Ms Parton's sort of athlete (9) 26. It may be caused by a pin lying

around (4) 27. He may make a difference to

incomes (9)

Down

1. Very confident, certainly at home! (2,2,5) 2. Irregular coastline, not all in one piece (9) 4. That belonging to us may turn sour (4) 5. A ruse to avoid (5) 6. It follows a gale at sea too (2,4) 7. Wrongdoings fashionable in the Nazi paramilitary (4) 9. Goes and tires out... (5) 11 . ... animals in form (5) 12. Humorously critical of racialist, perhaps (9) 13. Don't worry about what a yes man doesn't have! (5,4) 17. Voucher given to a man (5) 19. Floor covering man once employed in hospitals (6) 22. Broom making me sob, perhaps (5) 23. Heroic film seen in the pictures (4) 24. Assemble the mother ship (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

3. Diversion (9) 8. Footwear (4) 9. Rascal (9) 10. Nursery (6) 11. Form (5) 14. Illustrious (5) 15. Domesticated (4) 16. Long (5) 18. Rip (4) 20. Oust (5) 21. Fewest (5) 24. Subtract (6) 25. Circumference (9) 26. Reared (4) 27. Pierce (9) Down

1. Indecency (9) 2. Possible (9) 4. War club (4) 5. Cranium (5) 6. Unassuming (6) 7. Require (4) 9. Shadowy (5) 11. Art (5) 12. Precaution (9) 13. Correctness (9) 17. At no time (5) 19. Alleviation (6) 22. Curse (5) 23. Yield (4) 24. Obligation (4)