DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Add a very quiet finale (6)

4 Is returning but will miss the mark by a mountain range (6)

9 Hear distance measurer (5)

10 Smelly duck, prepare to

get excited – almost! (7)

11 Person rearing cattle dashed and caught her (7)

12 Modify some educational

terminology (5)

13 Willing to book for wildlife

park (4,7)

18 Show noisy

commentary (5)

20 Shakespearean character

to return greeting (7)

22 A crop is produced commonplace (7)

23 Coach ran it badly (5)

24 Country to warn

off lawyer (6)

25 Coming for most of

December (6)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Phrase differently (6)

4 Bumper car (6)

9 Full-dress military hat (5)

10 Deep joy (7)

11 Lose, surrender

(a right) (7)

12 ___ Rover, four-wheeldrive vehicle (5)

13 Uncouth (3-8)

18 Affect, stage (3,2)

20 Perform again (7)

22 Training certificate (7)

23 Milky coffee (5)

24 Mouse or rat, eg (6)

25 Think well of, set a high

value on (6)

DOWN

1 I dream madly of gaining

esteem (6)

2 Flower from Penny with

mad auntie (7)

3 Point in question,

or theory (5)

5 Press herb, extracting sulphur, in prehistoric times (4,3)

6 Perch by good man

putting on jumper (5)

7 Take in sailor’s sphere (6)

8 Our defector produced an amazing achievement (4,2,5)

14 Green stone red,

male faked (7)

15 House on edge end

of settlement (7)

16 Suitable type

of fraction (6)

17 Poem for boy,

with catch (6)

19 Six circle the French

instrument (5)

21 Despised bad date

at hotel (5)

Cold-shoulder (6) Spendthrift (7) Poem (5) Perceive (7) Cereal crop (5) Violent confusion (6) Person aged a hundred (11) Tropical rainy season (7) Biblical letter (7) Snooker-cue support (6) Make up for (6)

Just warm (5) People from Gdansk or Poznan, eg (5)