CRYPTIC DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Solitary pop

recording (6)

4 Nameless man turned to silver safety device (3,3)

8 Bisect part that is

dry (3)

9 Printer finishes printing green but breaks down (9)

11 Rising stake for

Italian hothead (4)

12 Appreciative for a

quantity of coal? (8)

15 Girl holds back list

required by law (9)

18 Wind brings flower

into cathedral city (8) 19 Formerly attached

to the Church (4)

21 Nun raced wildly east,

showing stamina (9) 23 Speaking about inclusion of vegetable (3)

24 Get comfortable

and pay the bill (6)

25 Engineer taking trip

amid some sound (6)

DOWN

1 She nurses one of

the family (6)

2 Convicts’ titles? (9)

3 See! Try the

emblem! (4)

5 Moment of firing it - go

in twice, perhaps (8)

6 Brief farewell (3)

7 Birds and horse caught

in strong wind (6)

10 Rain cover for sailor

girl (not English) (9)

13 Utensil for Spooner’s

nosey follower (6,3)

14 Roughly relating,

but essential (8)

16 Agents capturing the Spanish is disgusting (6)

17 Be with initial trouble

and express grief (6) 20 Ever disposed to

alter course (4)

22 Spot little Dorothy (3) 7

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Nudge, pester (6)

4 Sudden muscular

movement (6)

8 Slash (3)

9 Hide, ready to

surprise (3,2,4)

11 On any occasion (4) 12 Country’s

autonomy (4-4)

15 First, opening (9)

18 Continuous (8)

19 Long way off (4)

21 Inertia (9)

23 Weary, annoy (3)

24 Away from

the shore (6)

25 Starting point (6)

DOWN

1 Travel headlong (6)

2 Non-specific (9)

3 Unit of electricity (4)

5 Land with a group of energy-producing mills (4,4)

6 Beverage (3)

7 Strong antipathy (6)

10 Gradual

appearance (9)

13 Morally elevating (9) 14 Lute-like instrument (8) 16 Fruit and nut

breakfast cereal (6) 17 Shattered (6)

20 Russian monarch (4) 22

Laid up (3)