DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Exchange money while keeping penny for Zeppelin, perhaps (6)

5 Located when in bed (5)

9 Non-mixer Noel organised

first runs (5)

10 One doubts it’s infected

round top of calf (7) 11 Dreamy thoughts about

old folk tale (4)

12 2020, springtime perhaps (4,4)

16 One making advances (11)

18 Sort out monarch by gently

applying friction (8)

21 Mix hard wood (4)

23 Cunningly rig vote for

Hitchcock film (7)

24 Edge of black and cold surface (5) 25 Cuts off part of

farmproduce (5)

26 Insane sort of

colour (6)

Down

2 To hurry back to dark film with wine (5,4)

3 Average man? (4)

4 Diverse moving as

in molecules (13)

6 A soft layer to

put on (5)

7 Plant one in area of land that’s dug over (5)

8 Old lover who used

to be hot? (5)

13 Swing round with gravitational twinge (4)

14 Rising ecstasy about openings of Enigma Variations (9)

15 Frail for a few days,

we hear (4)

17 Struggle to breathe when fuel envelops home (5)

19 Those people’s Irish article comes first (5)

20 Readily available, with a gentle knock (2,3)

22 Competent board,

but no leader (4)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Upholstery fabric (6)

5 Roughly (5)

9 ___ Potter, JK Rowling

character (5)

10 Brew (7)

11 Speaks (4)

12 Facing (8)

16 Person with great regard for

worldly possessions (11)

18 Supposing to be the case (8)

21 Berry used to flavour gin (4)

23 Item (7)

24 Deny (5)

25 Middleman (5)

26 Smoked herring (6)

Down

2 Initial period of

development (5,4)

3 Agate, often used

in cameos (4)

4 Hotel’s registration

counter (9,4)

6 Supports, finances (5)

7 Of a film, in its original

version (5)

8 Kitchen utensil (5)

13 Slippery with grease (4)

14 Impossible to work out (9)

15 School year division (4)

17 End of life (5)

19 Garment similar to a bolero (5)

20 ___ Jack, flag (5)

22 Hold tightly (4)