DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
8 The dope – the real silly – is an officer (7) 9 Speaking out and admitting (7,2)
13 Gather the mother animal plays a
protective role (5)
14 Take advantage of the ‘9’ to register (5) 15 Entertainer who’s first rate all round,
potentially (7)
16 Was a smuggler, too, but a loser (4-3)
17 Send right back a while after (5)
18 A pail put out to catch the rain in
spring (5)
20 Type and prepare to post (5)
22 Having bought, though about a quarter is
on credit (6)
23 Tail the animal had caught in (6)
25 Do, kind of, have a partner (7)
27 From Somerset, he’d taken the daughter
in the car (7)
30 Twig it’s some sort of electrical device (6) 31 Make your way slowly to table at half
past (6)
32 Well known for having sporadically done
time in (5)
35 About to enter the facts, is new to it (5) 36 Contacts with the mobs (5)
37 Certain to put the question to, by hook or
by crook (7)
39 Informs one about every setback (7)
41 Give to the new-formed party therein (5) 42 Stand outside quarters in a state of the
jitters (5)
43 It’s in need of a sharpener, silly! (9)
44 Arranged as instructed to (7)
DOWN
1 Awards the lads harassed me over (6) 2 Happens to mention, when rentals decrease (4,4)
3 Understand and rescue the shipwreck victim? (4,2,5)
4 Meant to assemble some in the home (9)
5 Also mount up slowly (7)
6 Single and not stuck on anybody? (10) 7 Returning the cakes would be an insult (4)
10 Bother to tell you which tweed it is (6) 11 Looking smart, are almost all in (7)
12 The chap dropped round at the
beginning of the week (6)
19 Notice, when the train moves out,
looking very happy (7)
21 Poison one is about to mix into (7)
24 What an argument winner will have,
being smart (3,4,4)
26 Having time to give to the old (6-4)
28 Relax when on the witness box? No
problem! (5,4)
29 Beefy one posted to patrol around (7) 30 Sees what the guidebooks said to
see (6)
32 Just as glossy as before, but that’s all
right (2,6)
33 Occurred to the shaky new father
holding it (6)
34 At “hair of the dog,” become angry (7) 38 Given to, had clutched the wrong
end (6)
40 A cat scrap (4)
EASY ACROSS 8 Caretaker (7)
9 Lung disease (9) 13 Pinny (5)
14 Smithy (5)
15 Caribbean
country (7)
16 Slope (7)
17 Imitate (5)
18 Rearrange (5)
20 Severe (5)
22 Sum (6)
23 Throwing
event (6)
25 Brief confused
fight (7)
27 Come together
forcibly (7)
30 Secret (6)
31 Crockery item (6) 32 Drying cloth (5) 35 Concur (5)
36 View (5)
37 Sketch (7)
39 Motorcycle
attachment (7) 41 Indian
language (5)
42 Loft (5)
43 Mistrust (9)
44 Stays (7)
DOWN
1 Material (6)
2 Diabolical (8)
3 Furniture item (6,5) 4 Weaken insidiously (9) 5 Topic (7) 6 TV advert (10) 7 Sound system (2-2) 10 Prodigal (6)
11 Shade of
red (7)
12 Scottish
dish (6)
19 Bird (7)
21 Get better (7) 24 Trucker (5,6) 26 External
staircase (4,6) 28 Lie (9)
29 Thin and
bony (7)
30 Unrefined (6) 32 Unruly
youth (8)
33 Bequest (6)
34 Greediness (7) 38 Mean (6)
40 Percussion
instrument (4)