DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

8 Higher education document for military suit? (7)

9 Rued mistake about first of dairies’ milk holder (5)

10 Shows the way in title

roles (5)

11 A hunter about to dig

something up (7)

12 No right in indiscretion

to show cheek (9)

15 Exclude bank,

shortly (3)

16 Alien spaceship oddly

upfront (init) (3)

17 Regarding people in association, doesn’t forget (9)

20 Turned out with band, playing a series of venues (7)

22 Relative might be subtle about ending of romance (5)

24 Point on stiletto –

simple invention (5)

25 Shifting dune engulfs limb that’s unprotected (7)

DOWN

1 Charged centres for

variation in clue (6)

2 Permit is held in

Virginia (4)

3 Think Don’s rice is

cooked (8)

4 Call into question when at home, holding male dog (6)

5 Sure to make a ploy (4)

6 Bust oar-blade;

delightful! (8)

7 Scamp finds Greek

letter in vase (6)

13 Gets hold of no

amateur remedies (8)

14 Girl outside hospital department left with cheese (8)

16 Now put up in

residential area (6)

18 Poor man with mug wants this much champagne (6)

19 Stayed out, fixed (6)

21 Lazy, one led astray (4)

23 Mel’s damaged

trees (4)

QUICK

ACROSS

8 Assemble again

(of troops) (7)

9 Large plucked

instruments (5)

10 Added small

photo (5)

11 Sited (7)

12 Military building (9)

15 Music type similar

to hip hop (3)

16 Poorly (3)

17 Headgear worn at

Christmas (5,4)

20 Actors on stage arranged as in a painting (7)

22 Paint solvent (5)

24 Retains (5)

25 Landlocked country

in the Caucasus (7) DOWN

1 Sampling (6)

2 Grows old (4)

3 Counted (6,2)

4 ___ 11, first US moon-landing mission (6)

5 Fashionable (4)

6 S African administrative capital (8)

7 Expended (4,2)

13 Improvised (2-6) 14 March on the spot (4,4)

16 Body of new recruits (6)

18 More than one,

grammatically (6)

19 Walk with a swagger (6) 21 Compass direction (4) 23 Weakling of a litter (4)