DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1. Fuel used in older vehicles (4)

3. In which low songs are rendered (4,4) 8. Rescue the first of the victims in rough sea (4)

9. See 19 Down

11. Promise to donate a single weapon (4,4,4)

13. Incense – made of a green mixture (6)

14. Pope misconstrued by the French nation (6)

17. Arranges the star score (12)

20. Betrothal of various Poles round America (8)

21. Assumed to give notice of danger, we hear (4)

22. Does some analytical piece-work (8)

23. Where the responsibility reposes if we are involved (4)

Down

1. Planned to include an emblem in the document (8) 2. Palindromic pick-meup (7)

4. They provide accommodation, as the sailor does, in a way (6) 5. Fruit to put in the earth, one hears, beneath the corn stalks (10)

6. Seal broken near the top of roof beam (5) 7. Mickey, the man from Helsinki? (4)

10. Scrap the rugged building (10)

12. Rustics are busy workers after vegetables (8)

15. Record what those who quell riots do (3,4)

16. Inclined to be disguised as Santa about the end of Noel (6)

18. They fasten up in Chinese port (5)

19 & 9Ac. Put in the jug (4,2,6)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1. Unpunctual (4)

3. Ready (8)

8. Excursion (4)

9. Top act (4,4)

11. Flee (4,2,6)

13. Particular (6)

14. Rough draft (6)

17. Valueless (5,7)

20. Unrevealed (8)

21. Magnitude (4)

22. Urgent (8)

23. Sole (4)

Down

1. Breadth (8)

2. Copse (7)

4. Confirm (6)

5. Fastidious (10)

6. Uneven (5)

7. Finished (4)

10. Criticisms (10)

12. Brutality (8)

15. Teaching (7)

16. Inherent (6)

18. Indecorous (5)

19. Leap (4)