DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Not on strike? That’s
unorthodox! ( 7)
5 Roughly draws hospital
rooms ( 5)
8 Abdominal pain initially
caused by winding coil ( 5)
9 Wimp takes advantage
of operation ( 7)
10 Instrument to steal, from
the sound of it ( 4) 11 Note, Den’s knocked over
monument ( 8)
13 Impulsiveness at set point,
any mistake? ( 11)
17 Viler gal confused rural resident ( 8)
19 Weapon housing large rod ( 4)
21 Vermin caught on top of the
strange toothed device ( 7)
22 Summarise on the subject
of hat ( 5)
23 Deer, scattered around river,
went astray ( 5) 24 French article about bilge is easy to read ( 7)
Down
1 Mysterious stuff starts to obsess city clerk until leaving town ( 6)
2 Touched end of
pen ( 4- 3)
3 Cut out wretched
section ( 4)
4 Unreliable painting method all in the mind ( 13)
5 Let inside to marry
and revelled in it ( 8)
6 Bits ordered around
Swiss dish ( 5)
7 Cater in a lithe
way? ( 6)
12 Filthy cigarette residue in single container ( 8)
14 Test severely one accountant over black vehicle ( 7)
15 Strongly disliking
states, English ( 6)
16 Small pastry features in sentimental film ( 6)
18 Unusually alert on a subsequent occasion ( 5)
20 Rough steep rock that rises up in an amazing arch ( 4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Improve ( a painting or photo) ( 7)
5 Dreadful ( 5)
8 Defamation ( 5)
9 Small warship with relatively
heavy weapons ( 7)
10 Outbuilding ( 4)
11 Denial ( 8)
13 Paid for directly ( 3- 2- 6)
17 Contradiction or denial ( 8)
19 Hurt ( 4)
21 Japanese art of folding
paper ( 7)
22 Force ( 5)
23 Abide ( 5)
24 Put into cipher ( 7)
Down
1 Hamburger sauce ( 6)
2 Striking artistic grouping ( 7)
3 Hideous ( 4)
4 Dynamite, nitroglycerine
etc ( 4,9)
5 Declare, notify ( 8)
6 Foremost part or side ( 5)
7 In the past few days ( 6)
12 Popular world sport ( 8)
14 Type of bet ( 4- 3)
15 Not bought ( 6)
16 The ___ Garden, book by Frances Hodgson Burnett ( 6)
18 Veneer, pretext ( 5)
20 Heroic story ( 4)