DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 A book just for you (6)

7 Just the chap for a stirring

speech (8)

8 A projected production (4)

10 Wine to enthuse about heartily? (6)

11 A fatherly form of address? (3,3)

14 Ruddy reactionary! (3)

16 Possibly father Ted’s about to be

recorded (5)

17 Structure ripe for

redevelopment (4)

19 Got a fire going? (5)

21 Communicated in a weird way (5)

22 Merry ending to an easy piece (5)

23 Mugs to pass around? (4)

26 A long exposure? (5)

28 A pocket to watch? (3)

29 Having just finished, relaxed _ albeit

worried! (6)

30 Obviously more than one

blunder (6)

31 River in the mountains (4)

32 Gets a second hearing (8)

33 Shifty, earthy, back-slapping

type? (6)

DOWN

1 Call to say the toll is greater? (4,2)

2 One having an L of a time passing a test? (6)

3 Males from Mars (4)

4 School head inclined to be formal in conversation (7)

5 Dismiss the remainder (5)

6 A thousand for key money? (5)

8 What you pay to get on? (4)

9 Persuaded to get pickled when there’s no choice (3)

12 He’ll give you some good advice (3)

13 Writer of a new soap set around central

Harlesden (5)

15 Best rebuttal (5)

18 In anger, I judge (5)

19 Dickens character’s signally timely

contribution (3)

20 That of ‘Largo’? (3)

21 Why pout when radio interference

obliterates the signal? (7)

22 The assurance of a true artist (3)

23 Thus Nat has an article on music (6)

24 He’s returned from less than a mile back (4)

25 Artist with his own piece of land in outer

Surrey (6)

26 In this business one has a future (5)

27 Be uppish at poker? (5)

28 Because profits are up a bit? (3)

30 Could be in the White House garden (4)

EASY ACROSS

1 Save (6)

7 366 days (4,4)

8 Places (4)

10 Hairpiece (6)

11 Exhibit, flaunt (6)

14 Fish eggs (3)

16 Rustic (5)

17 Deserve (4)

19 Bathroom fitting (5)

21 Horizontal (5)

22 Broaden (5)

23 Hazard (4)

26 Distinctive

character (5)

28 For every (3)

29 Mirth,

merrymaking (6)

30 Next to (6)

31 Burden (4)

32 Obviously (8)

33 Cleans with a

broom (6)

DOWN

1 Steal cattle (6)

2 Voucher (6)

3 Otherwise (4)

4 Clothing (7)

5 Exclude (5)

6 Thin porridge (5)

8 Cat noise (4)

9 Golfer’s peg (3)

12 Groove (3)

13 Pub game (5)

15 Clyde, for example (5)

18 Main artery (5)

19 Sleeping place (3)

20 Lair (3)

21 Lends an ear (7)

22 Grief (3)

23 Begin again (6)

24 Plant (4)

25 Works dough (6)

26 African country (5)

27 Suggestions (5)

28 Writing tool (3)

30 Young males (4)