DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

7 Business show in service before meal (7,5)

8 Former king raised by small Persian king (6)

9 Revolver, whichever way you look at it (5)

10 Begin to attack what’s under the chimney (4,4)

13 Disputes lines (4)

15 Band joke about the north (4) 16 Requiring, it’s said, to be working dough (8)

17 Foreign word needs one feminine design (5)

19 Butterflies discovered in cleaner vests (6)

21 Suspiciously viewed so tall a story handed down (3,5,4)

DOWN

1 Delightful vegetable plant (5,3)

2 Vital part of kiss beyond vineyard (4) 3 Van Gogh’s paints to defeat sea disaster (3,5)

4 A fish makes food thickener (4) 5 Military leader spoke – spoke under his breath (8)

6 Mark’s second vehicle (4)

11 Amazingly thin glow for nocturnal type (5,3)

12 Essen never shows up partially, or with regularity (8)

14 Rover’s rear end removed when following wife (8)

17 African country seized by

Somalia (4)

18 Number I have loudly at first (4)

20 True about Capone (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

7 Midday business meeting (7,5)

8 Ancient Persian king (6)

9 Blade of a helicopter (5)

10 Begin shooting (4,4) 13 Altercations (4)

15 Band of criminals (4)

16 Bakery process (8) 17 Recurrent pattern (5) 19 Anxiety (6)

21 Dubious handed‑down story (3,5,4)

DOWN

1 Annual climbing plant (5,3)

2 Decisive point (4) 3 Black spill in the sea (3,5)

4 Seaweed jelly (4) 5 Grumbled (8) 6 Blemish (4)

11 Nocturnal person (5,3) 12 Consistency (8) 14 Nomad (8)

17 Bamako’s country (4) 18 Number in a quintet (4)

20 Actually existing (4)