DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

6. Where lots go despite rising prices (7)

7. Grounds for development? (5)

9. Eastern figures of wood (3)

10. Not a good reporter (9)

12. Imaginary convert to Christianity? (4,7)

15. It holds a wicked light! (11)

17. The actors I get the spectators to criticise (9)

19. Badly in need of medical care (3)

21. Vessel given up for sauce (5) 22. A month before or after it, he takes care (7)

Down

1. It may cover you in retirement (5)

2. The novelist you see holding a pen (3)

3. A game reserve, perhaps (4)

4. Watch and see how long the music takes (9)

5. Book store? (7)

8. When in a hole, use your ingenuity (6)

11. It's a rigid rule (9)

13. Vigour shown by keener gymnasts (6)

14. Chap doesn't get any younger but still has control (7)

16. A ship on whose return many wager (5)

18. Hit a wild man from the

East (4)

20. Song birds take to it (3)