DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

8 Be in debt, so woman brought in to intimidate (7)

9 Goodbye to something

cast in gold (5)

10 Fancy gathering stock

round river (5)

11 Bugs belonging to

groups (7)

12 Current holder

required (9)

14 Secure link (3)

16 Reportedly pull part

of foot (3)

17 Where to hear rumours

of plant in winery (9)

19 Tailless monkey swallows headless pug – stuff of nightmares! (7)

21 Some capitol etchings

available for hire (2,3) 22 Aviator – one involved

in conspiracy (5)

23 Quiet, having been

overpowered (7)

1

DOWN

1 Battle study read 8

quickly, we hear (8)

2 Doctor about to accept nothing that’s second-rate (8)

3 Front removed from

little arcade (4)

4 Wrongly pierce notes

on cookery (6)

5 Opening of council

estate’s new tape (8)

6 Find half a token (4)

7 Bother from loud

American sailors initially (4)

13 Amount of computer memory – huge chunk taken, by the sound of it (8)

14 Court case to organise

as practice (5,3)

15 Occasion I had enjoyed initially at close of day (8)

18 Nothing in a crafty trick

to provoke (6)

19 Upset, sob about

Penny in dances (4)

20 Small amount of drink but start getting poorly (4)

21 Instrument neighbour

brought up (4)

7

QUICK

ACROSS

8 Constituent of

bones (7)

9 Assumed name (5) 10 Brushed

(the floor) (5)

11 Domestic

cockerel (7)

12 Treading quietly

and stealthily (2,7) 14 Contents of a

balloon (3)

16 Utter (3)

17 Exhibition

buildings (9)

19 Traffic jam (5-2)

21 Stoneworker (5)

22 Start (5)

23 Straighten out (7)

DOWN

1 Paper-cutting tool (8)

2 Smoothly and

articulately (8)

3 Schism (4)

4 Earliest stage of human development (6)

5 Merry-go-round (8)

6 General idea (4)

7 Old Russian ruler (4) 13 Colonise (8)

14 Non-electric (guitar) (8) 15 Produce a vibrating

sound (8)

18 Water in the

atmosphere (6) 19 Cease (4)

20 As well (4)

21 Butterfly-like insect (4)