DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Snakes and ladders not

started (6)

4 Porters’ rooms,

eg, sold off (6)

9 Wait with daughter

and partner (5)

10 Small container for

a beast crossing river (7) 11 Gather together for

a short prayer (7)

12 Second vegetable

is smooth (5)

13 Recently, they involved

a different lawyer (3,5,3) 18 Regular guest holding

dispute (5)

20 Old Austin with a lively

manner (7)

22 Important dignitary

terribly angered (7)

23 Magic formula for

a period of time (5)

24 Guy lost plant (6)

25 Scandal taken up in

soap is so good! (6)

DOWN

1 Cite article two

out loud (6)

2 Strangely, Ali held

biblical lady (7)

3 Poetic feature, note,

about most of hymn (5)

5 Work problem for one

rejecting motion (7)

6 Look around university to

find surgical dressing (5) 7 Cuts timber on board

ship (6)

8 Religious doctor sees

either half a fake (5,6)

14 Time for the bowler,

and not before time (7) 15 Linespeople (7)

16 Anything following cold

is got by infection (6)

17 Two beginners in the loop

and bounce along (6)

19 Hang out round

a country in Africa (5)

21 Girl with old rope (5)

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Not any person (6)

4 Neck attire (3,3)

9 Relish (5)

10 Lie (7)

11 Defeat heavily (7)

12 Bread supplier (5)

13 Collector of old things (11) 18 Bored, out of

patience (3,2)

20 Self-restraint (7)

22 Ethereal (7)

23 Device that controls the

flow of a fluid (5)

24 Fast stretch of river (6)

25 Complicated (6)

DOWN

1 Cancel out (6)

2 Low-toned woodwind

instrument (7)

3 Immerse (5)

5 Month ending with

Halloween (7)

6 Army lorry (5)

7 Make urgent appeal (6) 8 Red tape (11)

14 Speared (7)

15 Synthetic fibre (7)

16 Liaison (6)

17 Purely, solely (6)

19 Unearth (3,2)

21 Someone keeping their

money at the bank (5)