DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Not complaining if son gets in the news without parking ( 7)

5 I leave WC vacant ( 2,3)

8 Girl held by male, the lad ( 5)

9 Five in team touring country ( 7)

10 One’s read the source of dates ( 4)

11 As on the menu, a real cat recipe ( 1,2,5)

13 Greet with pistol, weird spirit in the house ( 11)

17 A mistral blows over scaremonger ( 8)

19 Split fashion is a non- starter ( 4)

21 Nonsense poet turning up in middle of visit to see Middle- Easterner ( 7)

22 Lovely thing slightly injured, that is ( 5)

23 Corroded under silver stone ( 5)

24 Whipped filling to create a change ( 7)

Down

1 Point to that woman’s father, a mountain guide ( 6)

2 Shakespearean character to return greeting ( 7)

3 Charlie boy’s young animal ( 4)

4 Where one form of transport gives way to another ( 5,8)

5 Large ditches disrupt N Chester ( 8)

6 Ship entering squall in error ( 5)

7 Moderate fit of ill- humour ( 6)

12 Headlong rush when steep dam collapses ( 8)

14 One doubts it’s infected round top of calf ( 7)

15 Posh boy and girl ( 2- 2- 2)

16 Stick advertisement in this place ( 6)

18 Vessel entering Zambia or Tanzania ( 5)

20 Look over in Tuscany ( 4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Brutal, savage ( 7)

5 Inhabitant of Aladdin’s lamp ( 5)

8 Respond to a stimulus ( 5)

9 Choicest ( 7)

10 Tract ( 4)

11 Ceases to exist ( 8)

13 Excessively brawny ( 6- 5)

17 Device for securely disposing of documents ( 8)

19 Be jealous of ( 4)

21 Cast a spell upon ( 7)

22 Eclipse, better ( 5)

23 Tall, spiky flower ( 5)

24 Setback in illness ( 7)

Down

1 Relating to words ( 6)

2 French vineyard estate round a castle ( 7)

3 Porridge cereal ( 4)

4 Device that warms

a room ( 7,6)

5 Discard ( 3,3,2)

6 Woodland sprite ( 5)

7 Join the forces ( 6)

12 Result of air pollution ( 4,4)

14 Unceasing ( 3- 4)

15 Additionally ( 2,4)

16 Past ( 6)

18 Briefly summarise ( 5)

20 Exhausting labour ( 4)