Maidenhead Advertiser

Double Crossword

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

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Cryptic Clues:

Across

1. Boat company in the south-west (4)

8. Rows in houses provided a pleasant domestic state! (10)

9. Aging types associated with gaol birds! (8)

10. What directs the ship without any hesitation to the fish (4)

12. The stronghold, we hear, went into action (6)

14. I’d seen the girl very confused (6)

15. Speculator having made a recovery (6)

17. To reach here from Baltimore, go north! (6)

18. Kind of fight without any charge (4)

19. Provide a substitute for Diana’s position (8)

21. Criminal fellow with an agent (10)

22. One heard in antiphonal tones (4)

Down

2. Care to hire different performer at the Hippodrome (10) 3. Part of Muffet’s meal (4)

4. I’m getting agreement for what a striking statement makes (6)

5. Came to an end and shut up (6)

6. Cause one to be enraptured at stage appearance (8)

7. Accustomed to being secondhand (4)

11. Record on sure winner is enough to put you off (10)

13. Got together to make the grade (8)

16. Bird is a Chinese internatio­nal (6)

17. Attacks with stones, maybe (6)

18. Chief American celebrity inside (4)

20. Sounds like one who has a unpleasant look at old foreign currency (4)

Quick Clues: Across

1. Wicked (4)

8. By chance (10)

9. Assassin (8)

10. Whirlpool (4)

12. Unmarried (6)

14. Begin (3,3)

15. Rebound (6)

17. Believe (6)

18. Enquires (4)

19. Recollecti­ons (8)

21. Walker (10)

22. Row (4)

Down

2. Bulky (10)

3. Country (4)

4. Increase (6)

5. Venerates (6)

6. Disturb (8)

7. Kill (4)

11. Self-effacement (10)

13. Desperado (8)

16. Hatred (6)

17. Perpetrate (6)

18. Mountains (4)

20. Rave (4)

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