DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Get moves afoot, perhaps (4,5)

8. Unoriginal animal (3)

9. Not the first pupils to be not the best (6-5)

11. Tired me out – it's a fault (7)

12. Die unexpectedly after doctor removed water (5)

13. Get very heated and more than tanned (6)

15. The language carries much weight with half the guests (6)

17. A step assembled for paperhanging, perhaps (5)

18. Edward finds debts boring (7)

20. Yet nothing appears to be missing (4,3,4)

22. The idiot of 9 (3)

23. Real stunt bungled in consequence (9)

Down

2. It makes the man able to cope (3)

3. Whitehead left answer out, being wiser (5)

4. Stimulate 91 about to tee off (6)

5. Prepare for attack, but don't desert (5,2)

6. The chairman's last word in selecting actors? (7,4)

7. He indicates where he lives and what he wears on top (9)

10. One of five everybody has – normal understanding (6,5)

11. Paper said mysteriously to vanish (9)

14. 100 have lost fat as a result of washing? (7)

16. Standing in the midst at useful spot (6)

19. Live with dunderhead in good health (5)

21. He is thus never ever lacking (3)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Deceive (9)

8. Forefront (3)

9. Suitable (11)

11. Stop (7)

12. Might (5)

13. Harvester (6)

15. Ebb (6)

17. Precise (5)

18. Stamp (7)

20. Mix (11)

22. Fuss (3)

23. Artifice (9)

Down

2. Little devil (3)

3. Eat away (5)

4. Scold (6)

5. Instance (7)

6. Conceited (11)

7. Rebel (9)

10. Getting ready (11)

11. Endless (9)

14. Lands (7)

16. Reflect (6)

19. Detail (5)

21. Falsehood (3)