DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Rejects and polishes
again (7)
5 Form of social standing (5) 8 Alan’s smashed up about
the nose (5)
9 Going round north,
weird figure shooting (7) 10 Food item of average
weight returned (4)
11 Quiet skilled worker
is prejudiced (8)
13 Unrivalled, like the House
of Commons? (7,4)
17 Send nice letters off,
though infuriated (8)
19 Elderly housed in
Swanage, Dorset (4)
21 Modern French seen
after art? (7)
22 Explicit about king (5)
23 Chop in curry, only the
outside is difficult to eat (5) 24 Being leaderless, turned
down and thrown out (7)
DOWN
1 Fame of US city with
unloaded weapon (6)
2 Rice with ma’s bait,
cooked (7)
3 Stumbled on
Cumbrian hill (4)
4 Auntie’s urgent arrangement for programme’s music (9,4)
5 One patch prepared for
monument (8)
6 A young girl is wrong (5)
7 Insane sort of colour (6) 12 Likeable rogue unknown
to court (8)
14 Get side transformed –
most experimental! (7)
15 Almost all choose not to finish agreeable outdoor meal (6)
16 Fuss about daughter,
much loved (6)
18 Trough with plant growth,
reportedly (5)
20 Land in America created (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Gathering (5-2)
5 Flower or colour (5)
8 Magical being (5)
9 Enthusiastic (7)
10 Cultivate (4)
11 Act of disposal (8)
13 Allusion to misbehaviour (11) 17 Tense uncertainty (8)
19 Revise proofs (4)
21 Pain in the lower back (7) 22 Liquidised food (5)
23 Apportion (5)
24 Put in code (7)
DOWN
1 Sanctuary (6)
2 Mythical horse-like
animal (7)
3 A Hard ___ Night,
Beatles film (4)
4 Valuable gem (8,5)
5 Transparency (8)
6 Grant admission to (3,2) 7 Club or heavy staff (6) 12 Set free, release (8)
14 Disciplined (7)
15 Religious verses (6)
16 Residential road (6)
18 Brazilian ballroom
dance (5)
20 Heroic story (4)