DOUBLE CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS: 7 Of horses (6)

8 Trouble (6) 10 Offence (7) 11 Unfaithful (5)

12 Only (4)

13 Search (5)

17 Steer (5)

18 Scoff (4)

22 Rage (5)

23 Novelty (7)

24 Sensitive to pain (6)

25 Battle (6)

DOWN: 1 Ask for (7)

2 Trifle in argument (7)

3 Move furtively (5)

4 Own (7)

5 Time and trouble spent (5) 6 Short (5)

9 Superfluous (9)

14 Fall out (7)

15 Fault (7)

16 Give (7)

19 Soil (5)

20 Great pain (5)

21 Doubly (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7 Actually one may be surprised to say it (6)

8 Pressed on amid dire trouble (6)

10 An attractive item has nothing of interest to a motorists (7)

11 The home all four returned to (5)

12 Runs amok, holding tea perhaps (4)

13 Stick to imitation jewellery (5)

17 It’s cold, but I could make it hot (5)

18 A somewhat imperious fairy (4)

22 Every inch a king? (5)

23 Achieving success with the orchestration? (7) 24 There’s no difference between them (6)

25 Venerate an American patriot (6)

DOWN

1 Politician dissolved sugar about seacreature (7) 2 A suspended sentence? (7)

3 Yet it may be quite a young tree (5)

4 The physical attraction of a body (7)

5 Got down to making a proposal? (5)

6 Turn aside for inspiration (5)

9 With everything to throw around there’s nothing left (5,4)

14 Loud chuckle first heard from Lewis Carroll (7) 15 The final game ends with a drink (7)

16 Garment can be adapted for tin legs (7)

19 Shouted and wept (5)

20 A number join four for a meal (5)

21 Unusual romance (5)