DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 & 5 Dn He hopes for a good deal when he takes a hand (4-6)

8 Failed to notice what the superintendent did (10)

9 Alas, in good health for only 24 hours (8)

10 See 21 Ac

12 Sheepdog almost as big as a miner (6)

14 About to feel deprivation, being negligent (6)

15 A Spaniard is a handsome fellow (6)

17 Fortress for a rook (6)

18 This could be a grand noise to 1 Ac And 5 Dn. (4)

19 Cut price matrial comes first (8)

21 & 10 Ac Being beneficent on the way to passing a driving test! (5,1,4,4)

22 Water container to put below ground level (4)

DOWN

2 Describing the stars in adaptation of radio tales (10) 3 The young woman is a plaything (4)

4 Interfere with the decoration, we hear (6)

5 See 1 Ac

6 Some cuts will restyle these! (8)

7 A demigod I noticed embraces another (4) 11 Removal of doubt about the answer (10)

13 It will blow up property belonging to me (4-4) 16 Greeting the completion of Tanzanian capital (6)

17 Being a stupid person, you’ll get the bird (6)

18 In bowls I’d exploit bias (4) 20 Hotheads inside fired sporadically (4)

QUICK

ACROSS 1 Retain (4)

8 Make drunk (10) 9 Augment (8) 10 Persia (4) 12 Sight (6) 14 Sleepy (6) 15 Coddle (6) 17 Puerile (6) 18 Nothing (4) 19 Funny man (8) 21 Stress (10) 22 Quarry (4)

DOWN

2 Free (10)

3 Jetty (4) 4 Reach (6) 5 Disburse (6) 6 Bitterness (8) 7 Sharp (4)

11 Help (10) 13 Better (8) 16 Repeat (6) 17 Lament (6) 18 Enthusiasm (4) 20 Profound (4)