DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Not on strike? That’s
unorthodox! (7)
5 Roughly draws hospital
rooms (5)
8 Abdominal pain initially
caused by winding coil (5)
9 Wimp takes advantage
of operation (7)
10 Instrument to steal, from
the sound of it (4) 11 Note, Den’s knocked over
monument (8)
13 Impulsiveness at set point,
any mistake? (11)
17 Viler gal confused rural resident (8)
19 Weapon housing large rod (4)
21 Vermin caught on top of the
strange toothed device (7)
22 Summarise on the subject
of hat (5)
23 Deer, scattered around river,
went astray (5) 24 French article about bilge is easy to read (7)
Down
1 Mysterious stuff starts to obsess city clerk until leaving town (6)
2 Touched end of
pen (4-3)
3 Cut out wretched
section (4)
4 Unreliable painting method all in the mind (13)
5 Let inside to marry
and revelled in it (8)
6 Bits ordered around
Swiss dish (5)
7 Cater in a lithe
way? (6)
12 Filthy cigarette residue in single container (8)
14 Test severely one accountant over black vehicle (7)
15 Strongly disliking
states, English (6)
16 Small pastry features in sentimental film (6)
18 Unusually alert on a subsequent occasion (5)
20 Rough steep rock that rises up in an amazing arch (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Improve (a painting or photo) (7)
5 Dreadful (5)
8 Defamation (5)
9 Small warship with relatively
heavy weapons (7)
10 Outbuilding (4)
11 Denial (8)
13 Paid for directly (3-2-6)
17 Contradiction or denial (8)
19 Hurt (4)
21 Japanese art of folding
paper (7)
22 Force (5)
23 Abide (5)
24 Put into cipher (7)
Down
1 Hamburger sauce (6)
2 Striking artistic grouping (7)
3 Hideous (4)
4 Dynamite, nitroglycerine
etc (4,9)
5 Declare, notify (8)
6 Foremost part or side (5)
7 In the past few days (6)
12 Popular world sport (8)
14 Type of bet (4-3)
15 Not bought (6)
16 The ___ Garden, book by Frances Hodgson Burnett (6)
18 Veneer, pretext (5)
20 Heroic story (4)