DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Pass around a quantity of fuel (4)

3 Group of criminals have methods used for getting on board (8)

9 Censure about the first impression (7)

10 As far as the Greek letter writer is concerned, this is the end (5)

11 Use of the same initial is only repetition after all (12) 13 This is not the full version – start again (6)

15 What witnesses are required to do at the trial (6) 17 Solid obstruction very quickly passed through (5-7) 20 & 22Ac No seaman would describe this as port (5-4,4) 21 Refer to part of the newspaper for leakage (7) 22 See 20 across

23 Make an advance unaccompanied, by the sound of it (4)

DOWN

1 Privateers produce rude songs, we hear (8)

2 To cause dismay, father is upset by a friend (5)

4 A business concern, one hears, to make a confident statement (6)

5 Spirited relations (5-7) 6 Mean to change a single flower (7)

7 Speak about Western influence (4)

8 Corrupts actions meant to be destroyed (12)

12 One who operates about the end of August for fish (8) 14 Doesn’t sound as though this would suit the fast drinker! (4-3)

16 In the present time the foundation is lowered (6) 18 Afraid a house will show this state inside (5)

19 Shrewd beginning for the student of antiquity (4)

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Mute (4)

3 Novice (8)

9 Snake (7) 10 Passenger ship (5) 11 Teacher (12) 13 Eatable (6) 15 Supplication (6) 17 Rude (12) 20 Excuse (5) 21 Desecrate (7) 22 Of cooking (8) 23 Tidy (4)

DOWN

1 Calamity (8) 2 A month (5) 4 Bury (6) 5 Picture (12) 6 Convent (7) 7 Unusual (4) 8 Memory (12) 12 Outlook (8) 14 Beginning (7) 16 Tremble (6) 18 Speechify (5) 19 Mica (4)