DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Country cigar (6)

4 Metro shaken by start of relatively minor earthquake (6)

8 Bad service causes

offence (5)

9 It’s felt the factory

worker came first (7)

10 Renoir upset king by

mistake (2,5) 11 Or surround the alternative (5)

12 A foreign film, not

quite complete, is obstructive (9)

17 Somewhat outside medium

range (5)

19 Whipped filling to create

a change (7)

21 Walker returning stuff to

woman (7)

22 Reasonable noise (5)

23 Slackness of ten among the

non-clerical (6) 24 Seal the opening

in secret (6)

Down

1 Bird gaspin’ for

breath (6)

2 Modern French follower of art in movement (7)

3 Doctor gets to the

hill by car (5)

5 Put down the phone, no longer engaged? (4,3)

6 Left in a lot of

fertiliser (5)

7 Equestrians added

clauses (6)

9 Retaining gold logo, her problem as second-hand expert? (9)

13 Warm drink for

a whizz? (7)

14 Relocate capsule

for footwear (4-3)

15 Animal like us with two parents protecting male learner (6)

16 Make further amendments to part of agreed itinerary (2-4)

18 Cleaning compound for tin soldiers when trapped (5)

20 Alan’s smashed up

about the nose (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Adapt (6)

4 Frozen drip of water (6)

8 Vigour (5)

9 Show mercy (7)

10 School absenteeism (7)

11 Really cross, livid (5)

12 Breakfast food

item (6,3)

17 Pamphlet, leaflet (5)

19 Gannet! (7)

21 Gain a legacy (7)

22 Sing, shout (5)

23 Edible seed used for

flavouring (6)

24 Boarded over (patio) (6)

Down

1 Very powerful (6)

2 Intrude on, interrupt (7)

3 Furrow the brow (5)

5 Decorative moulding between walls and ceiling (7)

6 Large Asian country (5)

7 Small hole for a lace (6)

9 Boxing category (9)

13 Changeover period (7)

14 Recover (3,4)

15 Structures in a multi-storey

building (6)

16 Amalgamated, combined (6)

18 Fire residue (5)

20 Husband of your aunt (5)