Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

10. 8. 7. Took Faint Wine on out senior (7) notice in from a bustle, journalists China, of the perhaps it man turns (6) taking (6)

11. Is outcome scared of (5) safer

12. Made processed cheese (4)

13. Dismay a quiet friend (5)

17. Harden in the river (5)

18. Day of celebration when a

man has meat (4)

22. Is Ray out of the country? (5)

23. Tidying up to achieve

grandeur (7)

24. Just an ordinary guy? (6)

25. Superficial appearance of

being wooden? (6)

Down

1. Yellow bird (7)

2. Lesson the marines disrupted (7)

3. Intends to get considerable wealth (5)

4. Funfair disrupted by thug (7)

5. Illegally take tales, perhaps (5)

6. Girl returning something valuable (5)

9. Charts how apartheid is dismantled (3,6)

14. General out for increase (7)

15. Is drawn from diverse sources (7)

16. Do they toy with parsley somehow? (7)

19. Rosie’s tree? (5)

20. Make boats (5)

21. Somehow eager to concur (5)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

7. Trying experience (6)

8. Colour (6)

10. Paper-folding art (7)

11. Silly (5)

12. Conversation (4)

13. Concerning (5)

17. Two pints (5)

18. Group of countries (4)

22. Zodiac sign (5)

23. Aquatic bird (7)

24. Not married (6)

25. Prairie wolf (6)

Down

1. North African country (7)

2. Naval officer (7)

3. Causing death (5)

4. Extremely angry (7)

5. Dismay (5)

6. Allude (5)

9. Nonsense (9)

14. Long-lasting (7)

15. Light jacket (7)

16. Surgeon’s knife (7)

19. Near (5)

20. Hard, dark wood (5)

21. Nobleman (5)