Maidenhead Advertiser

Double Crossword

Choose either quick or cryptic clues.

-

Cryptic Clues:

Across

1. See 16 Down

4. More than one reflection is written about disorderly game (6)

9. See 12 Across

10. Fire, air, earth or water that provides heat (7)

11. The eventual result of summing up (5)

12 & 9Ac. What the

Guy Fawkes

Night programme provides (5,13)

14. The skill that produces a vessel (5)

18. Those who have good ones aren’t necessaril­y sharp sighted (5)

19. Drawing a vehicle with nothing on (7)

21. Does it vary according to what the ranker gets paid? (7,6)

22. Distinctiv­e ways of writing with engraving tools (6)

23. Cauterised, making the waters the colour of blood (6)

Down

1. Make the work of the plumber longer! (6)

2. Having attracted a smaller share of the vote (2,3,8)

3. Some of the beer I examined is very strange (5)

5. As a cleric, I would be in this abbey (7)

6. One specially invited by the judge? (5,2,6)

7. Pay for a seat (6)

8. Is in need of western colonists (5)

13. One with a price on his head could be shot before very long (7)

15. Crooked pole in the ship is at an angle (6)

16 & 1Ac. One propeller after another used by the carpenter (5,6)

17. Assuredly, where legal clauses may be found (6)

20. Wander widely across the mountains (5)

Quick Clues: Across

1. Vibrate (6)

4. Preferably (6)

9. Merciful (13)

10. Betrayer (7)

11. The earth (5)

12. Guide (5)

14. Scatter (5)

18. Curt (5)

19. One more (7)

21. Tiresome person (4,2,3,4)

22. Loophole (6)

23. Motive (6)

Down

1. Read out (6)

2. Repeatedly (4,5,4)

3. Smallest (5)

5. Amidst (7)

6. In a somersault (4,4,5)

7. Staggered (6)

8. Arrogate (5)

13. Hermit (7)

15. Main (6)

16. Hurry (5)

17. Fractured (6)

20. Corpulent (5)

 ?? ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United Kingdom