DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Hosts having many private lines (6) 4 Hoboes making a racket in back-street (6) 9 Descriptive of water current! (5-8) 10 Corresponds with what strikers use (7) 11 Indirect remark to a team (5) 12 Kind of layer found on the building site (5) 14 I’m taking a long time to create an idea (5) 18 A different shape for stacks (5) 19 Likely to be resolved by physics (7) 21 Forebodings before emotional feelings? (13) 22 A piece of material in ingenious tailoring (6) 23 Kinsman puts us in the money (6)

DOWN

1 Not on holiday for the reception (2-4) 2 Could be just the place for a tender marine (13) 3 Name once changed by the aspirate (5) 5 To do this to a lost soul could be a miracle (7) 6 But they don’t forbid the wedding! (8, 5) 7 Service having no publicity agents! (6) 8 Grade the girl below a hundred (5) 13 Its contents are tapped by washers (7) 15 Where the faithful give their services (6) 16 A quaintly pleasing kind of accent (5) 17 Allowed to transgress - makes an admission (4, 2) 20 He had a great love for capital and nothing more (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Package (6) 4 Slender (6) 9 Killing by electricity (13) 10 Odd (7) 11 Male duck (5) 12 Downright (5) 14 Vagrant (5) 18 Pattern (5) 19 Public performer (7) 21 Doubts (13) 22 Pitched (6) 23 Dog-house (6)

DOWN

1 Gratify (6) 2 Prepare for action (5,3,5) 3 Consumed (5) 5 Wash and iron (7) 6 Get in (4,9) 7 Offer (6) 8 Cringe (5) 13 Expand (7) 15 Quantity (6) 16 Trivial (5) 17 Receptacle (6) 20 Taut (5)