DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Stay with marine manoeuvres ( 6)
4 Sweetheart makes great strides, and runs off with lover ( 6)
9 Peg or Penny at home ( 3)
10 Carry out drunken daughter into quadrangle ( 9)
11 Punches clothing ( 5)
12 Bird pecked another bird ( 7)
14 Friend about to hurry thanks to instant drug ( 11)
17 Keeper of dog on a hill ( 7)
18 Excuse for boxer having used teeth endlessly ( 5)
20 Rise above nerds, can’t go wrong ( 9)
22 Disrobing while holding sash ( 3)
23 Property of English, say ( 6)
24 In frenzy, meaning one will provoke reactions ( 6)
Down
1 Meal tapers off ( 6)
2 Chap in charge is frenzied ( 5)
3 Instances broadcast non- stop ( 9)
5 Many unclothed in the middle ( 3)
6 Dummy pill put with personal problem ( 7)
7 Dean’s new chair ( 5)
8 Appliance for glass includes withered key ( 6- 5)
13 Great Dane destroyed refreshment area outdoors ( 3,6)
15 Fully conversant with a piece of chicken ( 7)
16 Is a lie contrived to make contact? ( 6)
17 Lovely thing, copper kipper! ( 5)
19 Sarcastic wit like metal? ( 5)
21 Adjust television ( 3)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Food preparation instruction
list ( 6)
4 Church officer ( 6)
9 By way of ( 3)
10 Copy, duplicate ( 9)
11 Cuban dance ( 5)
12 Infuriate ( 7)
14 Acid test ( 6,5)
17 Unit of food energy value, familiar to dieters ( 7)
18 Banished person ( 5)
20 Be too much for ( 9)
22 ___ for, select ( 3)
23 Tyrant ( 6)
24 Agreement, harmony ( 6)
Down 1 Give a new look to ( 6)
2 Allure ( 5)
3 Entertainer ( 9)
5 One of three components of the mind, according to Freud ( 3)
6 Bravery ( 7)
7 Your nephew’s sister ( 5)
8 Padded ( 11)
13 Artisan and master builder ( 9)
15 Disorder of health ( 7)
16 Whisked ( eggs) ( 6)
17 Mass of water vapour visible high in the air ( 5)
19 Presses ( clothes) ( 5)
21 TV Doctor and time traveller ( 3)