DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Water to return over century is on the cards (4)

4 Musician roasting

nuts! (8)

8 Leg adornment taken off round top of leg (6)

9 Enclosed – be

quiet! (4,2)

10 A helping of spumante for big cat (4)

11 Hammered and reckless in the capital of Denmark (8)

13 High point following

drink for horse (13) 16 Recommend a

barrister (8)

19 Aurally cart to

arboreal nest (4)

20 Beachwear in the

Pacific (6)

22 I get in trouble but

make light of it (6)

23 Power of vision certainly seen in figure (8)

24 Somewhere else to

house fish (4)

DOWN

2 Behaviour journalist

managed (9)

3 Recover silver in

ointment (7)

4 Group of eight, and the rest turned up in the Old Testament (5) 5 A bit of yoga, strictly

about the stomach (7) 6 Parts of speech on

sun garbled (5)

7 Very upper-class with

very little money (3) 12 Being basic (9)

14 I angled to become

principal (7)

15 Against new poet, being moderately slow (7)

17 Skips through

ballroom, it seems (5) 18 To live in Essex is

terrific (5)

21 Might she grow on

you? (3)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Close (4)

4 Unable to differentiate between musical notes (4-4)

8 Lace edgings (6)

9 The ___ of Wrath,

novel (6)

10 Brogue, eg (4)

11 Isolated (8)

13 Dining wagon on a

train (10,3)

16 In a way (2,2,4)

19 Threesome (4)

20 Reached the

highest level (6)

22 US soap in which Larry Hagman played JR Ewing (6) 23 Made a hash of (6,2) 24 Artificially colours (4)

DOWN

2 Cruelty, severity (9) 3 Loftiest (7)

4 Jobs, chores (5)

5 African country whose capital is Abuja (7)

6 Outlet for dirty

water (5)

7 Took food (3) 12 Get rid of (9)

14 Knocked over (2-5)

15 Gossiped idly (7)

17 Gains possession of (5) 18 Finally become (3,2) 21 Organ for seeing (3)