DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Work in hand at the moment, possibly (9) 8. Beer from the Yorkshire Dales (3) 9. Suggestion in favour of job (11) 11. That’s wrong about the Queen having milliners (7) 12. Rats spread across motorway – alternative transport found (5) 13. Don’t accept trash (6) 15. Spanner? (6) 17. Mislay a ring inside when slack (5) 18. He has a hand-to-mouth existence (7) 20. Dotty and some other people missing (3,3,5) 22. Conclusion Den works out (3) 23. Stop fighting and call off the marriage (9)

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2. Hearing aid, at least in part (3) 3. A quiet girl’s writing (5) 4. Religious serviceman? (6) 5. Revel like rioters somehow (7) 6. Frank denial about ordinary soldiers (4,3,4) 7. Check on income statesmen redesigned (5,4) 10. Like an exhausted jumper outside prescribed limits (3,2,6) 11. Unlucky to get a difficult script (4,5) 14. Detected a strange descent (7) 16. Append a man who confuses (6) 19. Intolerable when off (3,2) 21. Continually criticise a piece of jazz music (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1. Suitable (9) 8. Possess (3) 9. Name (11) 11. Money chests (7) 12. Of them (5) 13. Immediately (2,4) 15. Squirm (6) 17. Discover (5) 18. Simplest (7) 20. Wrongly (11) 22. Bother (3) 23. Services (9)

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2. Unity (3) 3. Scoundrel (5) 4. Pass (6) 5. Swindler (7) 6. Satisfaction (11) 7. Burial (9) 10. Asphyxia (11) 11. Quack (9) 14. Sneering (7) 16. Rue (6) 19. Clip (5) 21. Falsehood (3)