DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 To get furthest, just emboss

it evenly ( 6)

4 Legal document gets

the man to squirm ( 6)

9 Measure round West

and search for water ( 5)

10 Commissioned soldiers lose

right to bureaux ( 7)

11 A weed in the silt,

shimmering ( 7) 12 Steer convertible and

synchronise again ( 5)

13 Term or theme adjusted

for heat gauge ( 11)

18 Reversible note ( 5)

20 Bill is ready to sing ( 7)

22 Resolute enough to stop

the bloodshed ( 7)

23 Swore badly – even

more so! ( 5)

24 Snooker rest with

eight legs? ( 6) 25 Loud insect

circling tree ( 6) Down

1 Put idea out, but not one to modernise ( 6)

2 Sentimental crush around week one ( 7)

3 Ready to block the foreign bad weather ( 5)

5 Judge to make mention of two points ( 7)

6 Levy suggested

for small nails ( 5)

7 Tears off with unknown substitute ( 6)

8 What a moth will do is appear ( 4,2,5)

14 Doctor Cameron

love story ( 7)

15 Have they escaped from awful regimes? ( 7) Before noon, gets through and entertains ( 6) Only me to trust ( 6) In arena, a fitting canteen service ( inits) ( 5)

A first example ( 5) 16

17 19

21

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 American underground system ( 6)

Word for expressing the time ( 6)

9 Gather together ( 5)

10 Cloudiness ( 7)

11 Drew off liquid from ( 7)

12 Energetic Cuban dance ( 5)

13 Hill climber ( 11)

18 Guitar- plucking noise ( 5)

20 Having no cargo on board ( 7)

22 Artist’s paint board ( 7)

23 Group of islands in Polynesia ( 5)

24 Variety of steak ( 3- 3)

25 Food retailer ( 6) 4

Down

1 Beer and lemonade mixture ( 6)

2 Swaggering display

of fearlessness ( 7)

3 Causing fires deliberately ( 5)

5 Vexation arising from

disappointment ( 7)

6 Drug obtained from poppies ( 5)

7 Array of telephone buttons ( 6)

8 Kindly, benevolent ( 4- 7)

14 Every day between dusk

and dawn ( 7)

15 Prevalent in a certain region ( 7)

16 Dazed state ( 6)

17 Not just, biased ( 6)

19 Speak off the cuff ( 2- 3)

21 Vanquished person ( 5)