Ashbourne News Telegraph

Double Crossword

Choose either quick or cryptic clues – both fit the same grid.

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Cryptic Clues: Across

6. A help or a hindrance in the works (7) 7. The French doctors are known for their friskiness! (5) 9. Old English boy holds a number (5) 10. He’s not a particular person (7) 12. A status symbol (5,2,4) 14. William’s heart makes him a pasty fellow! (4-7) 18. Gets off with a slight dislocatio­n (7) 19. Climb with knotted laces (5) 21. His work is another’s play (5) 22. Admit that you take in stolen goods? (7)

Down

1. Fresh plays turned out (5) 2. Such a yarn may produce a groan (6) 3. Everyone retires to it sooner or later (3) 4. Gas-poker? (6) 5. Permanent dwelling (7) 8. An inch out perhaps but maintainin­g contact (2,5) 11. Advocate riotous living? (7) 13. The converse of a district? (7) 15. On a log, crazily, to a shallow lake (6) 16. What people who had designs on eating out did? (6) 17. Oil producer has nothing to exist on (5) 20. Service charge (3)

Quick Clues: Across

6. Conciliato­ry (7) 7. Counterfei­t (5) 9. Unclean (5) 10. Short stiff hair (7) 12. Reliabilit­y (11) 14. Ruin (11) 18. Reveal (7) 19. Essential (5) 21. Precisely (5) 22. Invalidate (7)

Down

1. Madness (5) 2. Strain (6) 3. Cover (3) 4. Mouthful (6) 5. Attribute (7) 8. Uprightnes­s (7) 11. Pronounce (7) 13. Train (7) 15. Reliable (6) 16. Source (6) 17. Soil (5) 20. Excavate (3)

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