DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 Shake please, when dozing (6)

5 Hound without lead,

something worth having (5)

9 Awful lie about politician

getting force (5)

10 Back the nag that finishes last,

commonly? (7)

11 Ogre spilt blood (4)

12 Writer, for example,

surrounded by bad sites (8) 16 Success of narrated film part performed in aircraft (7,4)

18 Game to tease bachelor

in coop (8)

21 Cards’ winning serves (4)

23 Shakespearean character to return greeting (7)

24 Small child alone lacking

one that’s complete (5)

25 About to rent, say, vault (5) 26

Dad, I announce, is a sailor (6)

Down

2 Place umpires

in car (9)

3 Some feel sure that

they’re fish (4)

4 Push river team

into lobby (8,5)

6 Second Conservative in plot (5)

7 Relaxes in azaleas,

escaping (5)

8 Shabby and dirty boat husband’s left (5)

13 Diagram including

Indian city (4)

14 Rough island community holding on to pound is outside the law (9)

15 Try lifting nocturnal

creatures up (4)

17 Song first sung in

tree (5)

19 Turning mechanism turning to appear the same (5)

20 Page from

predictable epic (5)

22 Desist from knocking vessels over (4) 25

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Dense crowd (6)

5 Allocation (5)

9 Measures of land equivalent to 4840 square yards each (5)

10 Charge (with) (7)

11 Hand measure (4)

12 Lie dormant (8)

16 Categorised (6-5)

18 Computer’s information

collection (8)

21 Advance slowly (4)

23 Foot-wart (7)

24 Swim (5) 25 Variety of dark brown fur (5)

26 Profoundly (6)

Down

2 Healer who uses plant

remedies (9)

3 Topple from power, unseat (4)

4 Hallmark product, eg (9,4)

6 High-nesting wader (5)

7 Take (an exam) again (5)

8 ___ Lowe, model (5)

13 Cultivate (4)

14 Based on personal accounts (9)

15 Pavement’s border (4)

17 Make ready again (5)

19 Area of combat (5)

20 ___ showers, spring rains (5)

22 Deft (4)