DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Ingratiate oneself with a dish by partiality (5,6) 9. Sat at work being hostile (7) 10. Finding a colour can be an awful chore (5) 11. Nest built in Eire about the end of July (5) 12. Novice gets a pound for profitable enterprise (7) 13. Paths or parts (6) 15. Paces around the

junction to get a view (6) 18. Inactivity, i.e. train

trouble (7) 20. In the midst of mango

surprise (5) 22. Protect against financial loss

with a row of bushes (5) 23. It will go up when the action

starts (7) 24. As a union official, he'd stop

wars breaking out (4,7)

Down

2. Superior part of a shoe? (5) 3. Particular regard (7) 4. Play around with an

instrument... (6) 5. ...by way of having nothing left but such an instrument (5) 6. Disrupt a huge inn

somehow (7) 7. Appear to wake up after the

match, perhaps (4,2,5) 8. Spy taking centre stage

shiftily (6,5) 14. The Bard wrote about

width (7) 16. Everyone in the show is

superficial (7) 17. Leading Grandmaster has

scope for a chess move (6) 19. A fool from Antwerp (5) 21. Love a dreary smell (5)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Nomination (11) 9. Resonant (7) 10. Rubber sap (5) 11. Series (5) 12. Domestic (7) 13. Irritate (6) 15. Maintenance (6) 18. Retort (7) 20. Elsewhere (5) 22. Commerce (5) 23. Obvious (7) 24. Animation (11)

Down

2. Fragrance (5) 3. Daily (7) 4. Infer (6) 5. Fabric (5) 6. Suite (7) 7. Focus (11) 8. Dispossess (11) 14. Elucidate (7) 16. Rustic (7) 17. Limb (6) 19. Brush (5) 21. Perfect insect (5)