DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Write back and cut off

family member (6)

5 Turn your gaze from

a French green (5)

9 Single member with the

Spanish force (5)

10 Feature of foot, one broken

in the end (7)

11 Cable contract (4)

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21

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Give voice about something steep, money (8)

Tart quality produces awfully nasty cringe (11) One’s reps struggling to find the answer (8)

Order it, or leave it out? (4)

Excited by turn-over of fuel support (7) 24 Some other measurement unit (5)

25 Reportedly detects

coins (5)

26 Score in result Downwent yesterday (6)

2 Puts into words what old flame demands (9) Sounds completely sacred (4)

Looking back among deer on show (4,9)

Vainly about to lose a synthetic resin (5) Listen to wet weather rule (5) Jack has dubious moment (5)

During the trial I establish they are not true statements (4)

14 Current holder

required (9)

15 Hence in pergola (4)

17 Objects when time’s

changed (5)

19 Former one the

French banish (5)

20 Fold damaged

petal (5)

22 A bit of a nasty

eye infection (4)

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QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Walking aid (6)

5 Intense pain (5)

9 ___ Guthrie, American

folk singer (5)

10 Soldier in a cavalry unit (7)

11 Towel holder (4)

12 Honeymooner (5-3)

16 Try to anticipate

a person’s actions (6-5)

18 Wobbly (8)

21 Relinquish, hand over (4)

23 Bride-to-be (7)

24 Employees’ association (5)

25 Shout of joy (5)

26 Ranked in a tournament (6)

Down

2 Spacious quality (9)

3 Playthings (4)

4 Impetuous

behaviour (3-10)

6 Fame and honour (5)

7 Female relation (5)

8 Horde of insects (5)

13 Raucous (4)

14 Fritter away the

hours (5,4)

15 Dramatic part (4)

17 Large showy flower (5)

19 Equine noise (5)

20 Latin-American dance (5)

22 Dark red or purplish-brown

colour (4)