DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

6. Give place to construct a road (4,3)

7. The result of some addition to endless conversation (5)

9 & 3Dn. Fail to hold lease

before autumn (3,4)

10. Take it in turns to change neat arrangement (9)

12. After a meal he is concerned with someone’s health (11)

15. Intruder ruins the car gears (11)

17. Lead spray could make one incapacitated (9)

19. See 2 Down

21. Destined, we hear, to be received in triumph (5)

22. Criminal gets in at the back of the house (7)

Down

1. Fed up when there’s a mix-up in the dates (5)

2 & 19Ac. For divers, the main

place to retire to? (6)

3. See 9 Across

4. Golfers, boxers or delivery operators (9)

5. As men on the board, they should be impregnable (7)

8. Olympian herald seen among other messengers (6)

11. Scoresheet? (9)

13. Uses a rose for clusters of flowers (6)

14. Stripped in variety act for intimate entertainment (7)

16. Aimed to transform means of communication (5)

18. Reverse the current trend to do press work (4)

20. Some of the frail limbs requiring medical attention (3)

QUICK CLUES

Across

6. Eradication (7) 7. Backhander (5) 9. Objective (3) 10. Profitable (9) 12. Blending (11) 15. Acknowledgment (11) 17. Abatement (9) 19. Pale (3) 21. Dodge (5) 22. Train (7)

Down

1. Send (5) 2. Gladness (3) 3. Temple (4) 4. Learning (9) 5. Forsake (7) 8. Is unable (6) 11. Narcotic (9) 13. Exile (6) 14. Merit (7) 16. Worth (5) 18. Frank (4) 20. Compete (3)