The Scotsman

DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

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CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Do it in a still, possibly (12)

7. Grown-up is not right (5)

8. Resigned to the cost I worked out (5)

9. Some couturiers are not in fashion (3)

10. Obvious love for a party piece (9)

11. Monster nips back around hospital, getting cross (6)

12. Take the car with a learner plate? Rubbish! (6)

15. Weariness of the girl I duet badly with (9)

17. Wildly ate the light meal (3)

18. I rant about the retinue... (5)

19. ...and not the paper on standards (5)

21. Agent involved in changing a tenner has to regret the return of the businessma­n (12) Down

1. Being dejected is not solaced, somehow (12)

2. I cheat with a variation of Esperanto (3)

3. Inscriptio­n at the foot (6)

4. Some might ask for certain things for the special military unit (4,5)

5. Gongs with a hole in are musical instrument­s (5)

6. He's in the classroom (12)

7. Look at the timepiece (5)

10. Churchman grins wryly with moon around (9)

13. Indication­s of choice to change the stove (5)

14. Act for a penny and a vegetable (6)

16. Upset the saint with a blemish (5)

20. Regret that it's not completely true (3)

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