DOUBLE CROSSWORD

1 Apartment where one can live and get the work done (7,4) 9 Got us in to rearrange the excursions (7)

10 A tissue of lies divides the church (5)

11 Anne’s brought back a plant (5)

12 Take too much fare (7) 13 Smoking jacket? (6)

15 A grim following in the main (6)

18 More attractive as a plant than as an insect, perhaps (7) 20 What he does is appropriate (5)

22 Approaches Northern listeners (5)

23 The type to feel for the blind (7)

24 A question of personal position (5,3,3) 2 Point to a number consumed (5)

3 Grape-producer includes a label to mark its year (7)

4 It’s regular trade practice (6)

5 It burns Alf up, then me! (5) 6 It’s both simple and hard at the same time (7)

7 Hear scoring is different for this sport (5,6)

8 Letting out that a hairdresser’s not charging? (7,4)

14 It clears the vision, but deceives the judgement (7) 16 The estate agent’s lying (7)

17 I lead a horse in front of Lawrence’s place (6)

19 A hard question for one, a sitter for another (5)

21 I get gloomy losing my home (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Make (11) 9 Softens (7) 10 Angry (5) 11 Coach (5) 12 Particular (7) 13 Coveted (6) 15 Instrumentalist (6) 18 Detestable (7)

20 Cleave (5) 22 Happen (5) 23 Inkling (7) 24 Probe (11)

DOWN

2 Assign (5) 3 Scare (7) 4 Value (6) 5 Double (5) 6 Fact (7) 7 Fraternity (11) 8 Expressive (11)

14 Pope’s palace (7) 16 Durable (7) 17 Coldshoulder (6) 19 Power (5) 21 Extremity (5)