DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Be successful, having

wooden pin left ( 2,4)

4 Emperor races off round

front of amphitheatre ( 6)

9 Instrument to open your

abdomen ( 5)

10 In chapel, it is Methodist

selective doctrine ( 7)

11 Cecil is removing winter

spikes ( 7) 12 Deduce that queen has left

main ferry ( 5)

13 Means of communication not seen before conflagration? ( 5,6)

18 Plunder firearm ( 5)

20 Poles in error get letter for

the Greeks ( 7)

22 River to join another river flowing back to American one ( 7)

23 Accounts book left out tool ( 5) 24 Energetic type taking

Monday off ( 6)

25 Promise to softly put

on shelf ( 6)

Down

1 One who came out to chance curtailed wreckage ( 6)

2 Boy is going to island in the morning ( 7)

3 Dependable sort of

alloy ( 5)

5 Getting up a

revolutionary plot ( 7)

6 Achy chest if

fenced in ( 5)

7 Comment regarding old German coin ( 6)

8 Its presence possibly suggests tenacity ( 11)

14 Support mother but don’t say anything about it ( 4,3)

15 Claimed Aled held

limb ( 7)

16 Three- legged stand - drop it to get smashed ( 6)

17 Points to large plant for part of meal ( 6)

19 Fruit found on every

other bed ( 5)

21 Time for magic

words ( 5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Give a new look to ( 6)

4 Idealist’s paradise ( 6)

9 Edible white- fleshed

fish ( 5)

10 Previous ( 3- 4)

11 Tableland ( 7)

12 On many occasions ( 5)

13 Constabulary ( 6,5)

18 Excavate ( 3,2)

20 Funnel- shaped hurricane ( 7)

22 Agitator ( 7)

23 Garden entrances ( 5)

24 Common stinging

plant ( 6)

25 Young swan ( 6)

Down

1 Cooking formula ( 6)

2 Lava mountain that

erupts ( 7)

3 Possibly ( 5)

5 Wavering effect

in music ( 7)

6 Sharp end ( 5)

7 Growing old ( 6)

8 Factual TV

programme ( 11)

14 Expose to danger ( 7)

15 Make virtuous ( 7)

16 Betting term ( 4- 2)

17 Pamper ( 6)

19 Brief flash of light ( 5)

21 Warwickshire town ( 5)