DOUBLE CROSSWORD

1 Possibly fill a lot of ships (8)

1 Be angry and emit smoke! (4) 2 Churned up mud on a small 3 Worried and bored about an hill (5) article (8) 4 Start an open-air collection (6) 9 Work socially acceptable 5 They may have been highly advanced as worth a lot (7) strung in the Wild West! (5,7) 10 Yet it might be quite a 6 It’s essential to reform a cad pedestrian clause (5) and a liar (7)

11 Apathy in a quarrel (12) 7 Many are to issue a challenge 13 Greyhound? (6) (4)

15 Boat man after oil, perhaps (6)8 Evidently one not represented 17 Was dirt-cheap? Hardly! by another (4-8)

(4,3,5) 12 A child will be if his parents 20 Scent that starts a romance are late (8)

(5) 14 Offer for consideration a small 21 One star turn nobody work in prose (7) applauds (7) 16 Turn pale when it is included 22 Not playing to rule eight can (6) be in trouble (8) 18 Put back in more settled 23 Word associated with poker - weather (5) but it’s not flush (4) 19 Dust one may well find on the

bathroom shelf (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Infant (4) 3 Visit often (8) 9 Leading (2,5) 10 Void (5)

11 Contentment (12)

13 Unkempt (6) 15 Janitor (6) 17 Wear and tear (12) 20 Mount (5) 21 Mitigate (7) 22 Gad verse (8)

23 Prop (4)

DOWN

1 Happily oblivious (8) 2 Suit (5) 4 Ceremony

(6)

5 Dubious (12) 6 Feat (7) 7 Playthings (4) 8 No little (12) 12 Lavish (8) 14 Abundant

(7) 16 Uncommon (6)

18 Fatuous (5) 19 Sour (4)