DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Ornamental tuft gracing quick-fire gun? (6)

4. Very full glass that gives one a jolt? (6)

9. Assume unimportant position in order to criticise driver? (4,1,4,4)

10. Red unit which hasn't been tested (7)

11. Intends to get the wherewithal (5)

12. Drew back: one inside was very strange (5)

14. Thanks getting into wickedness for a blemish (5)

18. Angry because of affliction? (5)

19. Competitor ran into tent upset (7)

21. Wiping out former ending (13)

22. Mollify severe leader frequently (6)

23. Made amends to dean (6) Down

1. Offended by being expelled (3,3)

2. Exploit foot-mask theme (4,3,4,2)

3. There is, in this book, a picture of an animal (5)

5. Met punk rocker who was slovenly and untidy (7)

6. Quibbling about charge after private car crash (13)

7. Setter gets another examination (6)

8. Not a tender novelist, apparently (5)

13. Start the game again out of shyness? (7)

15. Means of approach for 200 in stormy seas (6)

16. Aimed for newspapers, TV and radio (5)

17. Pelted for being very drunk? (6)

20. Characteristic skill is up to it (5)

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QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Maltreat (6)

4. Stand (6)

9. 50th anniversary (6,7)

10. Drinker (7)

11. Join (5)

12. Apart (5)

14. Confess (5)

18. Nitwit (5)

19. Resonant (7)

21. Killing (13)

22. Nakedness (6)

23. Cower (6)

Down

1. Powerful (6)

2. Calm (4-9)

3. Charm (5)

5. Recoil (7)

6. Inferior copy (4,9)

7. Intensify (6)

8. Inlet (5)

13. Lodge (7)

15. Stress (6)

16. Evade (5)

17. Smell (6)

20. Skirmish (5)