DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Sort of doing without one shade of colour (6)

4 Sea mammals in the country, we hear (6)

9 To some extent shun

clever relation (5)

10 There’s grease around any ship’s rope (7)

11 Biblical letter – sleep with it, perhaps (7)

12 Frequently decimal? (5)

13 Recall club’s digital storage device (6,5)

18 Stunt by one of seven in fairytale group (5)

20 Send me off to English estate (7)

22 Trooped round to get missile (7)

23 Item that’s slender and good (5)

24 Give palm fruit on entering (6)

25 Awful smell from first of steamed fish (6)

Down

1 Ruined, perhaps, but used to it (6)

2 Say no to a drop (7)

3 Welcome fluttering egret (5)

5 Worker on strike to get free sample (7)

6 Inclined to allow article inside (5)

7 Agreeing to make separate track (6)

8 Favourite view blocked by Debby-Lou dancing (4-4,3)

14 Unusual not to be rhythmic (7)

15 Soften copper on his round (7)

16 Prepared for publication – it is indeed corrected (6)

17 Distance from Ghent, travelling beyond lake (6)

19 It offers kitchen protection to a pair shortly performing (5)

21 Sacred song about totem (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Rift (6)

4 Covered (in) (6)

9 Having unexpectedly good fortune (5)

10 Intolerance to a certain substance (7)

11 Outstanding (7)

12 Cool and distant (5)

13 Grandson of your brother or sister (5-6)

18 Storage facility for newly arrived emails (5)

20 Evening prayers, evensong (7)

22 Extended, lengthened (4,3)

23 Measurement of liquid (5)

24 Make (a bomb) safe (6)

25 Of mixed origin (6)

Down

1 Sound of an object being thrown into water (6)

2 Person who interrupts a public speaker (7)

3 Fashion (5)

5 Kerosene light (3,4)

6 Trunk of the body (5)

7 24 hours away from work (3,3)

8 Chairperson’s deciding opinion (7,4)

14 In an uneasy state (7)

15 Political constituent (7)

16 One-sided (6)

17 Move upwards (6)

19 Hoodwink (5)

21 Luxuriously smooth (5)