DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

6 Aggressive action taken by the insulted (7) 7 Use it to make set of furniture (5)

9 An ear, perhaps, for music? (5)

10 Provided food for a domestic pet and wild deer (7)

12 They have a strong scent (11)

14 More than mere business acquaintances (4,7) 18 Red vehicle at one of the pits (7)

19 How one would feel, left in the dark? (5)

21 I come in to ward off an evil spirit (5)

22 Unfit to be celebrated (7)

DOWN

1 Blazing with a loud anger (5)

2 Happen to exist before autumn comes (6) 3 Wild-cat exploit (3)

4 Foreign office desk? (6)

5 Turns up and listens (7)

8 Sack the one who tells (7)

11 A highly vocal female (7)

13 Great, but it went down disastrously (7) 15 Second importance (6)

16 Number of towns in S Africa (6)

17 Upset to make light of (5)

20 Stern fellow in a row (3) 6 Respectability (7) 7 Inexpensive (5) 9 Seize (5) 10 Opposite (7) 12 Remorseless (11) 14 Agreeing (11) 18 Assert (7) 19 Leap (5) 21 Employees (5) 22 Gather (7) 1 Centre (5) 2 Motive (6) 3 Freeze (3) 4 Menace (6) 5 Transitory (7) 8 Protection (7) 11 Merrymaking (7) 13 Speech (7) 15 Exaltation (6) 16 Almost (6) 17 Variegate (5) 20 Summit (3)