DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Spreading round face

painter first (6)

4 River animal loses energy

by island (6)

9 Ale brewed in meadow (3)

10 Lumpy soup additive

makes cattle die (5,4)

11 Slate poor stories (5)

12 Pepys, perhaps,

raids it roughly (7)

14 Southern drink people drink on eastern type of transport (5,6)

17 Vicar loses one large

church (7)

18 Splendour of intricate

lace with tidy edge (5)

20 Dissenter’s abnormal

fatigue (9)

22 Speaking about inclusion

of vegetable (3)

23 TV controller far away (6)

24 Generates varieties

of animal (6)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Non-stop (flight) (6)

4 Specimen (6)

9 Padded underwear item (3)

10 Apiarist (9)

11 Childish word for ‘stomach’ (5)

12 Uncouth (7)

14 Of the study of religious faith (11)

17 Enter without being asked (5,2)

18 Slowly wear away (5)

20 Crunchy quality (9)

22 Prosecute (3)

23 Ear-splitting (6)

24 Blank, vacant (stare) (6)

DOWN

1 Tell associate (6)

2 Speak slowly, attract fifty (5)

3 One who helps

Satanists out (9)

5 Some thinking writers

need it? (3)

6 Social gathering

at French island (7)

7 Perfume introduced

in this century (5)

8 Cruel and chilly at the

centre? (4-7)

13 Garage Ross wrecked without a person attacking (9)

15 Time worker had spirit resulting in outburst of temper (7)

16 Wanders from the street

lights (6)

17 Othello to accept

Ford model car (5)

19 Loudly drinks

by mistake (5)

21 Spot little Dorothy (3)

DOWN

1 Formal argument (6)

2 Dominion (5)

3 Small enclosed space

or room (5-4)

5 Old name for beer (3)

6 Red spicy seasoning (7)

7 Our planet (5)

8 With experience in many

areas (4,7)

13 Worldwide (9)

15 Hunting dog (7)

16 Long crunchy

vegetable (6)

17 Dollars (5)

19 Desert waterhole (5)

21 Mate (3)