DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Take what is suitable? (11) 9 Disentangle one French composer (7)

10 Carry out an illegal suspension (5)

11 It is in fact a long claw (5) 12 Grows vegetables (7) 13 I’ve now become available for inspection (2,4) 15 Hostilities cut foreign capital (6)

18 Delight in French antiques (7)

20 After getting bail somehow, I find an excuse (5) 22 Barriers made to be overrun (5)

23 Try for a prize though not quite complete (7)

24 Sports clubs’ dances hard hit by rackets, perhaps (6,5)

DOWN

2 I get a number to follow through danger (5)

3 Be sorry about unrising income (7)

4 East European, but could be French (6)

5 He won’t do much to earn his reputation (5)

6 Mouth organs? (7)

7 They have lots to offer (11) 8 Is he found in literary haunts? (11)

14 Inject a cubic-centimetre into a climber as a safeguard (7)

16 It may make people turn pale (7)

17 Old punishments may still provide interest (6)

19 Crime of one who satisfied a burning desire? (5)

21 I have timber that’s perfect (5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Impediment (11)

9 Monolith (7)

10 Stimulate (5)

11 Squander (5)

12 Novelty (7)

13 Legal publishing permission (6)

15 Hear (6)

18 Confound (7)

20 Small bottle (5)

22 Shift (5)

23 Distinguished (7)

24 Compel (11)

DOWN

2 Glorify (5) 3 Neptune’s fork (7) 4 Harsh (6)

5 Fling (5)

6 Rich (7) 7 Precocity (11) 8 Character (11) 14 Authentic (7) 16 Stamp (7) 17 Value (6) 19 Limber (5) 21 Motionless (5)