DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Crush fruit (6)

4 Votes to accept post ad, perhaps (6) 9 Garland found in bobsleigh (3) 10 They didn’t win good enough cars at university (7-2)

11 Vital part of instrument (5) 12 Great actor, one appearing in musical (7)

14 When moving in, sweet-talk actress (4,7)

17 Worker returns holding Indian robe for Russian empress (7) 18 Connects with the golf course (5) 20 International cricket match meant change to part of the Bible (9) 22 French water yielding English gold (3) 23 Non-appearance - so programme’s off (2-4)

24 Curly endive obtained when sir goes back in charge (6) Down

1 Promptly gripped aluminium bar (6) 2 Operating is funny, but not before midday (5) 3 Green site relocated in Africa, it’s plain (9) 5 Colourant said to perish (3)

6 A diversion on Father’s Day (7) 7 Marvellous purse embroidered (5) 8 Drunk to detain again with poisonous inside (11) 13 Heat-retaining device developed from solar unit (9) 15 Assembles church service set in retreating ocean (7) 16 Sharp taste circulating round University (6) 17 Brown captures object for giant (5) 19 Requires massages, we’re told (5) 21 An effort gone by (3)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Comment (6) 4 Mauled (6)

9 Male deity (3) 10 General agreement (9) 11 Cuban musical form and dance style (5) 12 Stony area of a garden (7) 14 Baptising (11) 17 Vertical (goalpost) (7) 18 Bar of gold (5) 20 Claimant to the throne (9) 22 And the rest (abbrev)(3) 23 Fill the tank (6) 24 Church changing room (6)

Down

1 Strict government (6) 2 Lady customer’s title? (5)

3 Tally (9)

5 ___ Mack, comedian (3)

6 John Wayne film, eg (7) 7 Needing a polish (5) 8 Lack of appreciation (11) 13 Warden (9) 15 Feminine reflexive pronoun (7) 16 Chunkily built (6) 17 Higher (5)

19 Say hello to (5) 21 London ___, observation wheel (3)