DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Shake please, when dozing ( 6) 5 Hound without lead, something worth having ( 5) 9 Awful lie about politician getting force ( 5)

10 Back the nag that finishes last, commonly? ( 7)

11 Ogre spilt blood ( 4) 12 Writer, for example, surrounded by bad sites ( 8) 16 Success of narrated film part performed in aircraft ( 7,4)

18 Game to tease bachelor in coop ( 8)

21 Cards’ winning serves ( 4) 23 Shakespearean character to return greeting ( 7)

24 Small child alone lacking one that’s complete ( 5) 25 About to rent, say, vault ( 5) 26 Dad, I announce, is a sailor ( 6)

Down

2 Place umpires in car ( 9) 3 Some feel sure that they’re fish ( 4) 4 Push river team into lobby ( 8,5) 6 Second Conservative in plot ( 5) 7 Relaxes in azaleas, escaping ( 5) 8 Shabby and dirty boat husband’s left ( 5) 13 Diagram including Indian city ( 4) 14 Rough island community holding on to pound is outside the law ( 9) 15 Try lifting nocturnal creatures up ( 4) 17 Song first sung in tree ( 5) 19 Turning mechanism turning to appear the same ( 5)

20 Page from predictable epic ( 5) 22 Desist from knocking vessels over ( 4)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Dense crowd ( 6) 5 Allocation ( 5) 9 Measures of land equivalent to 4840 square yards each ( 5) 10 Charge ( with) ( 7) 11 Hand measure ( 4) 12 Lie dormant ( 8) 16 Categorised ( 6- 5) 18 Computer’s information collection ( 8) 21 Advance slowly ( 4) 23 Foot- wart ( 7) 24 Swim ( 5) 25 Variety of dark brown fur ( 5) 26 Profoundly ( 6)

Down

2 Healer who uses plant remedies ( 9)

3 Topple from power, unseat ( 4) 4 Hallmark product, eg ( 9,4) 6 High- nesting wader ( 5) 7 Take ( an exam) again ( 5) 8 ___ Lowe, model ( 5) 13 Cultivate ( 4)

14 Based on personal accounts ( 9) 15 Pavement’s border ( 4) 17 Make ready again ( 5)

19 Area of combat ( 5)

20 ___ showers, spring rains ( 5) 22 Deft ( 4)