DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 Two pig stealers will get beaten! (3-3)

4 Makes an outline of a game, we hear (6)

9 Thought I’d no reactions when disturbed (13)

10 Serious enough to resent a change (7)

11 Did it flow divinely from the choir? (5)

12 Two prepare to take the strain (5)

14 Diplomatic representative in a maiden voyage (5)

18 A topless specimen is quite enough (5)

19 The devil of a match (7)

21 A device that has some current attraction (13)

22 Insist upon a lock being put back (6)

23 Although he keeps going, he remains where he is (6)

DOWN

1 Diplomacy, we hear, took a devious course (6)

2 Youthful soothsayers, biblically speaking (5,8)

3 Girl involving one in love entanglement (5)

5 Make a new adjustment for the back row, by the sound of it (7)

6 An imaginative air-trip? (6,2,5)

7 Dispatched with railway guard (6)

8 Before the end of the day, the trial will make you irritable (5)

13 Somehow trace an alternative producer ... (7) 15 ... indispensable for one who is filming (6)

16 This craft will upset the lotteries (5)

17 As a culinary device, it causes some friction (6) 20 Land-line shown on the map (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Leave (6)

4 Bog (6)

9 Warily (13)

10 Bared (7)

11 Embellish (5)

12 Form (5)

14 Demon (5)

18 Go in (5)

19 Release (7)

21 Imprisonment (13)

22 Holds up (6)

23 If not (6)

DOWN

1 Determine (6)

2 In brackets (13)

3 Circular (5)

5 Daunt (7)

6 Official (13)

7 Dictum (6)

8 Apart (5)

13 Depict (7)

15 Following (6)

16 Odd (5)

17 Gratitude (6)

20 Memorise (5)