DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Show search for

weapon (3,5)

6 Reversing the pump made

interior rather wet (4)

8 First of hashish taken with

fury – one’s hooked (6)

9 Key worker in the office (6) 10 Inquiry into search

I take on (8)

13 Dispatch vehicle,

we hear (4)

14 Restore control

to country (9)

17 You left 1000 little

grains (4)

18 Game King Edward,

engulfed in bullets (8)

19 Angel finds that girl

caught by baby lion (6)

21 A dunce returned with hot

back-scrubber (6)

23 Go back through Pasadena as soon as possible (inits) (4)

24 Dyer can travel round lake

and remove dirt (3-5)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Brief, concise (8)

6 Meat and vegetables

cooked slowly in liquid (4) 8 Blood fluid (6)

9 Powerless aircraft (6)

10 Sadly inadequate (8)

13 Exploitative sect (4)

14 Company theft requiring

employee help (6,3)

17 Leg joint (4)

18 Riding contest (8)

19 Harass (a speaker) (6)

21 Child whose parents are

dead (6)

23 Breeding stables (4)

24 Party miming game (8)

DOWN

2 A turn I can make, bored

by routine (2,1,3)

3 Fix oil platform (3)

4 Tormenting or freeing

outsider (9)

5 Defacto to regularly

dine (3)

6 Station almost installed

and set down (9)

7 Religious book for girl,

a novice (6)

11 Police snare spared pet

by mistake (5,4)

12 Verdict of one beset by

dreadful gluttony (3,6) 15 Hasty movement round

top of cruising boats (6) 16 Mistakes made by treacherous one in time (6)

20 Tender proposal (3)

22 Grease located

in boiler (3)

DOWN

2 Remove the cargo

from (6)

3 Variety of lettuce (3)

4 Almost a disaster (4,5)

5 Small label (3)

6 Canvas used on

yachts (9)

7 In uniform fashion (6)

11 Browbeaten (9)

12 Vanilla pop (5,4)

15 Overrun (with vermin) (6) 16 Anxiety, disquiet (6)

20 And the rest (abbrev)(3) 22 Part of a whistle (3)