DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Restrain an attendant making industrial trouble (8)

5 & 2 Dn Wait for a connection, as the fisherman will do (4,3,4)

9 Study about a theologian (4) 10 With ribbons attempt to make ornamental textile (8) 11 Concerning a municipality with a hundred and four in charge (5)

12 This clue shows lack of care (7)

13 Presumably this tradesman is not particular! (7,6)

18 Vets idea for concocting a tranquilliser (8)

19 Can only be unfermented wine (4)

20 It’s clear I’ve returned with depression (7)

21 Stair-post not yet used by the Spanish (5)

22 Learned what’s used for stuffing (4)

23 De-creasing is urgent (8)

DOWN

2 See 5 Across

3 Thoughtful writers I have briefly used at the end (7) 4 Machinery for one who wants to raise corn (5,8) 6 Nothing at breakfast, for instance, but what is needed for porridge (7)

7 Light twinkler! (3-4)

8 You’ll find me including a change of gear that’s scanty (6)

13 Fuel on fast planes providing sources of heat (3-4) 14 Showing one is in agreement with falling asleep (7)

15 In some degree a word of preference (6)

16 Having been dismembered is not ‘urtful! (7)

17 Chinese, maybe, showing a tenser disturbance (7)

ACROSS

1 Showy (8)

5 Go by (4)

9 Soon (4) 10 Relationship (8) 11 Luke-warm (5) 12 Cloy (7) 13 Heedfulness (13) 18 Ominous (8) 19 Chamber (4) 20 Agitate (7) 21 Wed (5) 22 Record (4) 23 Saviour (8)

QUICK DOWN

2 Acrid (7) 3 Terse (7) 4 Outmoded (13) 6 Vitalise (7) 7 Timidity (7) 8 Small (6) 13 Desert (7) 14 Passage (7) 15 Halo (6) 16 Relate (7) 17 Lash (7)