DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Terrible noise from

tennis bat (6)

4 Be at great length to have

rightful place (6)

9 Long way off in Lindisfarne (3)

10 A table-leg collapsed during

game (9)

11 South African girl in

steam bath (5) 12 Serious, fashionable

and rigid (7)

14 Bet it’s an electric cell (11)

17 Thought briefly, carried on

holding mushroom (7)

18 Cub pack leader on

a stormy lake (5)

20 Twisted arm needed

to be reset (9)

22 Smash success? (3) 23 Not so much gold for

the landlord (6)

24 Learnt about part of

a deer (6)

Down

1 Say no to rubbish (6)

2 Some scenic or fun

holiday island (5)

3 British brought in to measure out wall opening (9)

5 Brew tea then

dine (3)

6 US city or country

given nothing (7)

7 Strewth! Home Counties Christmas birds (5)

8 Regular cut

I rendered in the science of farming (11)

13 Great Dane wrecked open-air restaurant (3,6)

15 Seek votes using tough material on socialist leader (7)

16 Beat fish’s

coating (6)

17 Animal arrived

and left (5)

19 Merman hiding in

wet hellhole (5)

21 Party embraces upper-class couple (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Boil gently (6)

4 Relating to words (6)

9 Horse-like animal (3)

10 Factory workers,

collectively (4,5)

11 Take up again (5)

12 Lumpy or knotted (7)

14 Yam-like foodstuff (5,6)

17 Clergyman’s salary (7)

18 Canadian tree (5)

20 Device for keeping an

aircraft on course (9)

22 Dove’s sound (3)

23 Scope, room (6)

24 Pretty to view (6)

Down

1 Treads and risers (6)

2 Stonecutter (5)

3 In another place (9)

5 Small fairy (3)

6 Tract (7)

7 Glaringly coloured (5)

8 Beginner’s swimming

stroke (5-6)

13 Self-operating (9)

15 Essential item for

a referee (7)

16 Courageous (6)

17 Slow garden pest (5)

19 Edible nut of the hickory tree (5) 21 Small green vegetable (3)