Double trouble
ACROSS •
1 Floor covering Grumbled, complained (6) • 4 Live, dwell Adjacent (6) •
7 Strangers Scouts (9) •
9 Phoned Military grade (4) •
10 — Everage, comedy dame Sicilian volcano (4) • 11 — in the Wood, pantomime
Tower of —, biblical structure (5) •
13 Urge, goad
Obtain by importunate demands (6) •
14 — Reagan, US president
— Sutherland, actor (6) •
15 Observed Decapitate (6) •
17 Cold dessert — jump, athletics event (6) •
19 Rot Red herring (5) •
20 Polluted mist Self-satisfied, complacent (4) • 22 Beat, thrash Amphibian (4) •
23 Waved, flapped Full of objects, crowded (9) • 24 — Bates, antagonist of the thriller Psycho
Usual (6) •
25 Buccaneer
Pontius —, Roman governor of Judaea (6)
Each clue leads to two answers which differ from each other by one letter. You must decide which is the correct one. For example, the two possible answers to 1A are CARPET and CARPED — the answer to 3D will reveal which one is correct.
Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror
DOWN •
1 Cost, fee Alter (6) •
2 Garden mollusc Stopper, bung (4) •
3 Menace Cotton strand (6) •
4 Exploding firework
Animal that lives in a sett (6) •
5 Sensitive, tender Kind, type (4) •
6 Consume, use up Increase in volume (6) • 7 Impromptu
Fiddler —, Topol musical (2, 3, 4) • 8 Shakespeare’s town
— End, stand at Old Trafford (9) •
11 Fracture Bakery product (5) •
12 Truck Happy as —, ecstatic (5) • 15 Massachusetts state capital
Lancashire town (6) •
16 Refusal Relating to teeth (6) •
17 Prepare an instrument before playing Become less fat (4, 2) •
18 Provoke to fury Secure the services of (6) • 21 Sullen, gloomy Excessive supply (4) • 22 Replete Stumbled, tripped (4)