DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. The most far-reaching part of the view, I'd estimate (6) 4. Large funnel that takes jumps? (6) 9. Dogmatic approach of idiot to odd inverse set (13) 10. Damage, etc. rips

muscle (7) 11. A flower emerged (5) 12. Certainly lacking energy

and morose (5) 14. Crowd of journalists? (5) 18. Attracted but not won (5) 19. Quick retort from libertine with broken toes (7) 21. A unit given aim turns out to

be dull (13) 22. Delicate proposal (6) 23. By which progress is made in

acting? (6)

Down

1. A fortune from breaking the

law! (6) 2. Spoiling the numerical

form? (13) 3. Peers in a bout of reckless

amusement (5) 5. In opera rarely outside (4-3) 6. Apparently prior ownership

is attractive (13) 7. Hurries to get plants (6) 8. Leading conifer's tree-top (5) 13. Ancestry shown in the length

of the dynasty (7) 15. Regulate so as to be barely in

the Christian era? (6) 16. Quarrel and become greatly

heated (5) 17. Cuts always in a ship (6) 20. Not one flexible bit of

vegetation (5)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Claim (6) 4. Repayment (6) 9. Hypocrisy (13) 10. Merciful (7) 11. Heading (5) 12. Flower (5) 14. Climb (5) 18. Scope (5) 19. Uneasy (7) 21. Declaration (13) 22. Oppose (6) 23. Squirm (6)

Down

1. Subtract (6) 2. Assorted (13) 3. Ingenuous (5) 5. Stretchable (7) 6. Dull (13) 7. Peril (6) 8. Verve (5) 13. Burdensome (7) 15. Correct (6) 16. Edge (5) 17. Spirit (6) 20. Precipitous (5)