DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Soaks when walks about

East ( 6)

4 Fellow goes to the

Spanish church ( 6)

9 Allotment appears in

part of misquotation ( 5)

10 Stick out if badly troubled with large omission ( 7)

11 Papers, ten, twitch which

is crazy ( 7)

12 Trendy Post Office

animal ( 5)

13 Very panicky mixing final

paints ( 2,1,4,4)

18 Page found in the correct

order ( 5)

20 Girl composer listened to

shrink ( 7)

22 After jack, perhaps, I cut

ace of hearts ( 7)

23 Pass on soldiers’

song ( 5)

24 Even so, moth was

metamorphosed ( 6)

25 Sportsman who may

get foiled? ( 6)

Down

1 Endless inquest involved shiny disc ( 6)

2 Rewrite inane to public schoolboy ( 7)

3 American city in hole to get weaving? ( 5)

5 Temporary setbacks

for thumbs ( 7)

6 Stout left in device

for pulling beer ( 5)

7 Stay hidden on air

bed, say ( 3,3)

8 Perhaps channel can contain zero relaxed attitude? ( 11)

14 Plant retailer to flirt

so wildly ( 7)

15 Wonderfully happy when icy dill is chopped up ( 7)

16 American next to

reptile with flower ( 6)

17 Strong horse as yet

unreliable, right? ( 6)

19 Unusual object may make you inquisitive, not us ( 5)

21 Conform to an incomplete language ( 5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Sweltering ( 6)

4 Builds, fashions ( 6)

9 Rich powerful person ( 5)

10 Pang of conscience ( 7)

11 Interesting incident ( 7)

12 Loathe, detest ( 5)

13 French cold cooked

meats ( 11)

18 Joined by melting,

welded ( 5)

20 Alligator pear ( 7)

22 Letters for overseas ( 7)

23 Trifle, deal playfully ( with) ( 5)

24 Means of curing a disease ( 6)

25 Voracious ( 6)

Down

1 Meddle ( 6)

2 Villainous ( 7)

3 Arctic ice house ( 5)

5 Thorough search ( 7)

6 Colin ___, Oscar- winning

British actor ( 5)

7 Fortified wine made in the town

of Jerez in Spain ( 6)

8 Impossible to disprove ( 11)

14 Sporting signal of dismissal ( 3,4)

15 Pretend ( 7)

16 Illicit romance ( 6)

17 Story written in verse ( 6)

19 Antidote put into a sick person’s

blood ( 5)

21 Make a bid of ( 5)