DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

6 A poor fiddler outside the door (7)

7 A brave wife (5)

9 A number of them give you the time of your life! (5) 10 Leaves high and dry on the beaches (7)

12 Washing may depend on it (7,4)

14 Superintending, but missing something? (11)

18 Piece of bread the French break into bits (7)

19 Get even? (5)

21 It’s irritating getting only a little credit in support (5) 22 He’s not a particular person (7)

DOWN

1 Tighten one’s salary? (5)

2 A gunsmith adds it to his stock (6)

3 Its line is straightforward (3) 4 It will come as a sudden blow (6)

5 It ends a flight in two ways (7)

8 Bacon’s lines (7)

11 Makes slow progress by streetcar (7)

13 It makes a man keen on money, and a woman on food (7)

15 Stay to put mother in control (6)

16 It’s a necessity to want to exist (4,2)

17 A description of one found wanting (5)

20 The last thing one aims for (3)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 7 Reason. 8 Minute. 10 Set free. 11 Totem. 12 Dumb. 13 Fibre. 17 Earth. 18 Pole. 22 Pilot. 23 Repeats. 24 Livery. 25 Moving.

Down: 1 Preside. 2 Pastime. 3 Hoard. 4 Picture. 5 Suite. 6 Seems. 9 Registers. 14 Waiters. 15 Cohabit. 16 Message. 19 Spell. 20 Olive. 21 Spool.