DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

6 Pray the change will do you good! (7) 7 Plant that means a great deal to us (5) 9 Photograph - by which a crook is identified? (5) 10 Is it after five or later he calls? (7) 12 Those who enter the services (6-5) 14 The highest bidder doesn’t leave anything behind (5,3, 3) 18 Mends broken rapiers (7) 19 Gets close to a section of marine arsenal (5) 21 Prepared to fight (3-2) 22 Comment on what you see? (7)

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1 May be said twice for comfort, but not here (5) 2 Slit at the front (6) 3 Copy used in newspapers (3) 4 A dotty thing to play with! (6) 5Funny moods? (7) 8 A shade less intense (7) 11 One may hear it from a Socialist or a Conservative (7) 13 He hangs on to the wall (7) 15 Create disorder in a card-game (6) 16 A cook may use a tin one (6) 17 Travelled from Dover (5) 20 Go back - tidily? (3).3

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

6 Advent (7) 7 Out of bed (5) 9 Precipitous (5) 10 Slander (7) 12 Incitement (11) 14 Repetition (11) 18 Stealthy (7) 19 Slumber (5) 21 Bore (5) 22 Idiotic (7)

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1Beast (5) 2 Turn aside (6) 3Merry (3) 4 Face (6) 5 Errand (7) 8 Segregate (7) 11 Make better (7) 13 Necessitate (7) 15 Gossip (6) 16 Rectangular (6) 17 Existence (5) 20 Employment (3)