THE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Grown, gathered and stored (11)

9 No more Latin to perplex one (7)

10 A hunt around for the den of criminals (5) 11 Dig into a drawer for cash (4)

12 Force the company to take Eric on in design (8)

14 Fancies a doctor must have the same trouble (6)

16 Strangely silent sounds (6)

18 Control shown as others fall (8)

19 Fasten with rope and inflict punishment (4) 22 He’ll give support in return (5)

23 Legal or otherwise, it’s a lively movement (7)

24 He’s in a mess and collapses in embarrassment (11)

DOWN

2 Waterway is able to take nearly everything (5)

3 Cinderella’s sisters were so unfair (4) 4 Hounds may go like this, but not horses (6)

5 He daren’t upset a supporter (8)

6 Use live round so as not to be caught (7) 7 It will be presented by a group at one (6,5)

8 How near David got to Goliath? (6,5)

13 It’s not fair for one to use this (8)

15 Junior officers made to climb the mast (7) 17 May be in leaf at last (6)

20 Article is about for example protection (5) 21 Diagram of tailless aircraft? (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Form of illicit trading (5,6) 9 Chide (7)

10 Persian Gulf emirate (5) 11 Heap (4)

12 Cheap and showy (8) 14 Symbolic badge (6) 16 Assert without proof (6) 18 Refined style (8)

19 To exchange (4)

22 To step up (5) 23 Betrayal of allegiance (7) 24 Foam-crested waves at sea (5,6)

DOWN

2 A published defamation (5) 3 Stiff sticky earth (4) 4 Capital of Spain (6)

5 Make fun of (8)

6 Comprise (7)

7 US military decoration (6,5) 8 Greatly amused (7,4) 13 Showing moral decline (8) 15 Flaw (7)

17 Frustrate (6)

20 Barren region (5) 21 Tolerate (4)