DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

7 Polite construction worker? (5,8)

8 You won’t care if you lose it (8)

9 The half that’s better if we go outside! (4)

10 A fellow is a fair chap (6)

12 The force of emphasis (6)

14 Officer found on the staff? (6)

16 Not the first time (6)

18 A member of the opposition in Roman times (4)

20 An affair to arouse curiosity (8)

22 Are they all model patients in it? (5,8)

DOWN

1 Nine dogs variously engaged (6,2)

2 Glutton takes an age to finish a bird (6)

3 In this place he really is friendless (4)

4 They won’t speak much about others (8)

5 From the Australians we received a reply (6)

6 Knot sailors try to avoid (4)

11 The whole world finds it illuminating (8)

13 It’s unusual and there’s only one (8)

15 Solid lump of dripping (6)

17 Where doctors acquire a bedside manner? (6)

19 A direction on gas (4)

21 What the sea may do to a ship (4)