DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Making a mistake cutting
the head off fish ( 6)
5 Work round width of
fabric ( 5)
9 I’d air differences to
produce spokes ( 5)
10 Hear sherpa becoming
nervous ( 7)
11 Not a serious quarrel but
it turns very loud ( 4)
12 Endless sham fight in public
booth ( 5,3)
16 Good partner, and rotten
relative ( 11)
18 Good scene, it could be, for
the study of heredity ( 8)
21 Whereupon garden
contained the bad smell ( 4)
23 Large deer from Rio and
Cuba ( 7)
24 Boy entering river softly ( 5)
25 Party back at bar ( 5)
26 Evelyn modelled in uniform fashion ( 6) Down
2 Tough old stick has new Ford Orion ( 3,2,4)
3 Wader – one is found on Beachy Head ( 4)
4 Understood what photographer did? ( 3,3,7)
6 Rubbish yielded body part, we heard ( 5)
7 Some calling out common language ( 5)
8 Make a speech, or
brew tea ( 5)
13 Geek appears during dinner date ( 4)
14 Where house calls
are made? ( 5,4)
15 Nearly join
platoon? ( 4)
17 Blooming Russian
returns with wife ( 5)
19 To remove all trace of epoch’s close to impossible ( 5)
20 Felix easily holds up
refugee ( 5)
22 Back in the Spanish
part of a church ( 4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Illness that affects
breathing ( 6)
5 Deep hole ( 5)
9 Royal domain ( 5)
10 Alignment of the body ( 7)
11 Arctic waters feature ( 4)
12 Native American’s axe ( 8)
16 Strange feature ( 11)
18 Cafe for a light meal ( 5,3)
21 Small insects associated
with industry ( 4)
23 List ( 7)
24 Sprightly ( 5)
25 Calcium carbonate ( 5)
26 Warders at the Tower of London ( 6)
Down
2 Hollyoaks or Emmerdale,
Emmerdale, eg ( 4,5)
3 Family residence ( 4)
4 About ( 13)
6 Consignment ( 5)
7 Mouse- like animal ( 5)
8 Hard work ( 5)
13 Land unit equal to 4840 sq yds ( 4)
14 Chivalrous ( 9)
15 Entertain in the street ( 4)
17 At an oblique angle ( 5)
19 V- shaped cut ( 5)
20 Wadebridge’s Cornish river ( 5)
22 Ring around a saint’s head ( 4)