DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS 1 Snakes and ladders not started (6) 4 Porters’ rooms, eg, sold off (6)

9 Wait with daughter and partner (5) 10 Small container for a beast crossing river (7) 11 Gather together for a short prayer (7) 12 Second vegetable is smooth (5) 13 Recently, they involved a different lawyer (3,5,3) 18 Regular guest holding dispute (5)

20 Old Austin with a lively manner (7) 22 Important dignitary terribly angered (7) 23 Magic formula for a period of time (5) 24 Guy lost plant (6) 25 Scandal taken up in soap is so good! (6) DOWN 1 Cite article two out loud (6) 2 Strangely, Ali held biblical lady (7) 3 Poetic feature, note, about most of hymn (5) 5 Work problem for one rejecting motion (7) 6 Look around university to find surgical dressing (5) 7 Cuts timber on board ship (6) 8 Religious doctor sees either half a fake (5,6) 14 Time for the bowler, and not before time (7) 15 Linespeople (7) 16 Anything following cold is got by infection (6) 17 Two beginners in the loop and bounce along (6) 19 Hang out round a country in Africa (5) 21 Girl with old rope (5)

QUICK

ACROSS

1 Not any person (6) 4 Neck attire (3,3) 9 Relish (5)

10 Lie (7)

11 Defeat heavily (7) 12 Bread supplier (5) 13 Collector of old things (11) 18 Bored, out of patience (3,2) 20 Self-restraint (7) 22 Ethereal (7)

23 Device that controls the flow of a fluid (5)

24 Fast stretch of river (6) 25 Complicated (6)

DOWN

1 Cancel out (6) 2 Low-toned woodwind instrument (7) 3 Immerse (5) 5 Month ending with Halloween (7) 6 Army lorry (5) 7 Make urgent appeal (6) 8 Red tape (11) 14 Speared (7) 15 Synthetic fibre (7) 16 Liaison (6) 17 Purely, solely (6) 19 Unearth (3,2) 21 Someone keeping their money at the bank (5)