DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

1 In photo, get herons side

by side (8)

6 A section of traffic,

it yielded in town (4)

8 Exist as a prisoner,

a guiding light (6)

9 Gun perhaps damaged

one paw (6)

10 Dismissed sheds for

pariahs (8)

13 Top and tail fish like

ordinary people (4)

14 Artist hides a permit in

some poetry (9)

17 Vehicle test round a deep

ditch (4)

18 Spread supplied by former

nurse and journalist (8)

19 Attractive sounding

carriage (6)

21 Machine made by designer

without hesitation (6)

23 Observed in Henley

education (4)

24 Concrete mix placed round

a second window (8)

ACROSS

1 Unlikely (8)

6 Of the kind described (4) 8 Overhaul (6)

9 Delay going to bed (4,2) 10 Follower of the Pope (8) 13 Work with wool (4)

14 Add air to (9)

17 Music with lyrics (4)

18 Roaring decade? (8)

19 Of a race (6)

21 Hypothesis (6)

23 Rear of the foot (4)

24 Egyptian monuments (8)

DOWN

2 Frank standing to speak

freely (4,2)

3 And in France get a hundred – and the rest (abbrev)(3)

4 Gives fish as

a greeting (9)

5 Uncooked portion

of prawns (3)

6 Swimmer, the Italian,

to beat pretender (9)

7 Hot and humid weather

finally in issue (6)

11 Pursued outside, it’s

badly scolded (9)

12 Garden flowers, small, put

in various pastes (5,4)

15 Not one railway official (6) 16 Actor Sean on

banner? (6)

20 Raincoat for mother

getting cold (3)

22 Jewel little Margaret

returned (3)

DOWN

2 Single (ticket) (3-3)

3 Cupped undergarment (3) 4 Glow from the hearth (9) 5 Legal code (3)

6 Endure (5,2,2)

7 Child of an uncle

or aunt (6)

11 With six sides (9)

12 Joining device in

electrical equipment (9) 15 Shove (through

a crowd) (6)

16 Was afraid of (6)

20 School hat (3)

22 Tree affected by ‘Dutch’

disease (3)