DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Switch off a foreign
advertisement ( 6)
4 Robe half missing,
Ms Chanel showing style ( 6)
9 German wife died,
a crime ( 5)
10 Not even the head displays
a strange quality ( 7)
11 Most flexible article in
catalogue ( 7) 12 Investigated knobbly
nodes ( 5)
13 Stick with one lass, shame
about wastefulness ( 11)
18 Drink like a dog - one
from Los Angeles? ( 3,2)
20 Perhaps I’ll pay daughter
for a pond leaf ( 4,3)
22 Public image of rappers
on affordable housing ( 7)
23 Suffer a bit of pain,
curtailed ( 5) 24 Organ stop, the wrong way to inspire affection ( 6)
25 Hymns with footnote for charity donations ( 6)
Down
1 Slowly open one French note, aged ( 6)
2 Religious book for each incoming season ( 7)
3 Inappropriate handgun duels, to some extent ( 5)
5 Number, perhaps, making racket during spoken exam ( 7)
6 Deliveries of love
poetry, mostly ( 5)
7 Footballer’s legal position on journalist is raised ( 6)
8 At country house lie idle, but make bread ( 7,4)
14 Envoy has no time
to get a certificate ( 7)
15 Just what you would expect from excavated clay pit ( 7)
16 Please move,
pass by ( 6)
17 Loves another so
dear ( 6)
19 Cut and matched,
reportedly ( 5)
21 Rails reordered for
hideaways ( 5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Mixture of beer and
lemonade ( 6)
4 Fairground throwing game ( 4- 2)
9 Clock- like device used when
cooking ( 5)
10 Centre of an atom ( 7)
11 Loss of memory ( 7)
12 Crime of burning property ( 5)
13 Aerial sport ( 11)
18 Monastery building ( 5)
20 Nomadic person ( 7)
22 Vibrating effect in music ( 7)
23 Arm support ( 5)
24 Large exotic green- skinned
fruit ( 6)
25 Produced in a theatre ( 6) Down
1 Car’s GPS computer ( 6)
2 Pungent chemical used
in smelling salts ( 7)
3 Is brave enough ( 5)
5 Patch of fruit trees ( 7)
6 Iron ( clothes) ( 5)
7 Lacking, non- existent ( 6)
8 Not desirable ( 8,3)
14 Unspecified person ( 7)
15 Trapping ( 7)
16 Portable computer ( 6)
17 Unresponsive, cold ( 6)
19 Electronic sound ( 5)
21 Teacher training day ( 5)