DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Switch off a foreign
advertisement (6)
4 Robe half missing,
Ms Chanel showing style (6)
9 German wife died,
a crime (5)
10 Not even the head displays
a strange quality (7)
11 Most flexible article in
catalogue (7) 12 Investigated knobbly
nodes (5)
13 Stick with one lass, shame
about wastefulness (11)
18 Drink like a dog - one
from Los Angeles? (3,2)
20 Perhaps I’ll pay daughter
for a pond leaf (4,3)
22 Public image of rappers
on affordable housing (7)
23 Suffer a bit of pain,
curtailed (5) 24 Organ stop, the wrong way to inspire affection (6)
25 Hymns with footnote for charity donations (6) Downone French note,
1 Slowly open
aged (6)
2 Religious book for each incoming season (7)
3 Inappropriate handgun duels, to some extent (5)
5 Number, perhaps, making racket during spoken exam (7)
6 Deliveries of love
poetry, mostly (5)
7 Footballer’s legal position on journalist is raised (6)
8 At country house lie idle, but make bread (7,4)
14 Envoy has no time
to get a certificate (7)
15 Just what you would expect from excavated clay pit (7)
16 Please move,
pass by (6)
17 Loves another so
dear (6)
19 Cut and matched,
reportedly (5)
21 Rails reordered for
hideaways (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Mixture of beer and
lemonade (6)
4 Fairground throwing game (4-2)
9 Clock-like device used when
cooking (5)
10 Centre of an atom (7)
11 Loss of memory (7)
12 Crime of burning property (5)
13 Aerial sport (11)
18 Monastery building (5)
20 Nomadic person (7)
22 Vibrating effect in music (7)
23 Arm support (5)
24 Large exotic green-skinned
fruit (6)
25 Produced in a theatre (6) Down
1 Car’s GPS computer (6)
2 Pungent chemical used
in smelling salts (7)
3 Is brave enough (5)
5 Patch of fruit trees (7)
6 Iron (clothes) (5)
7 Lacking, non-existent (6)
8 Not desirable (8,3)
14 Unspecified person (7)
15 Trapping (7)
16 Portable computer (6)
17 Unresponsive, cold (6)
19 Electronic sound (5)
21 Teacher training day (5)