DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Commercial organisation
with cinema? (6)
4 Circuit with greyhound –
or Chihuahua? (6)
8 Without exception, at
home dog-tired (3-2)
9 Key workers (7)
10 Leather factory’s attempt
to secure girl (7) 11 Moving her – my simple
poem (5)
12 Our Lady travels around
America with difficulty (9)
17 Scientist Newton had one
article in the bag (5)
19 Lower record in
clothing (7)
21 Wedding response then awkward lies to worship (7)
22 Plant left out of vehicle (5) 23 Sweet but boring group of people heard (6)
24 Silently agreed to odd den, oddly (6)
Downrambling
1 Praises
tales about kiss (6)
2 Italian dish transported to Nepal (7)
3 Wash out messy
resin (5)
5 Aims high,
strangely praises (7)
6 Attractive food finishing off jelly (5)
7 John's music? (6)
9 Dog could be too
old? Yep (3,6)
13 Turn down
refuse? (7)
14 Eyelid makeover, daughter conceded (7)
15 Felt sorry for the pious being roped in (6)
16 Come up with arrangement for dances (6)
18 A price to pay for
coral reef (5)
20 Sauce not separated when held back (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Divide into two (6)
4 Flipping of a coin to decide
an issue (4-2)
8 Shine faintly (5)
9 Unsteady on your feet (7)
10 Statement of regret (7)
11 Kitchen garment (5)
12 Swollen (9)
17 Frolic (5)
19 Unlawful claimant to
power (7)
21 Leave (someone) in the
lurch (3,4)
22 Distressed (5)
23 Epigram (6)
24 Coated with metal (6)
Down
1 Mendicant (6)
2 Muscle-building drug (7)
3 Decorative brooch with
a picture in relief (5)
5 One with a lot of
experience (3,4)
6 Avow (5)
7 Impolitely enquiring into
someone’s private life (6)
9 Type of travel ticket (3,6)
13 Prime cut of beef (7)
14 Money put in a bank (7)
15 Zodiac symbol for Libra (6)
16 To be seen by adults only
(film) (1-5)
18 Unimportant (5)
20 Habitual (5)