DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. It would take long legs to make him a flier! (5) 4. Delicate scrap of material in folder (7) 8. Direction for higher standards of patient care? (7) 9. Pleas become void (5) 10. Endure the final one (4) 11. Suggesting Communist takes nothing before fast (8) 13. Thus there's no returning within a short time (4) 14. Responsibility for returning some letters unopened (4) 16. Omit to indicate permission is not possible (5,3) 17. Season for a trip in America? (4) 20. Country of certain dialects (5) 21. Protective barrier in sport? (7) 22. Everybody has gone wrong

about old ship (7) 23. Crop needing wind initially,

then warmth (5)

Down

1. Twice the normal portion with look-alike giving aid (6,7) 2. Depressions in the hills? (5) 3. Length of enclosure (4) 4. Fix quickly before half open (6) 5. Non-specialised in every respect (3-5) 6. It may seem remarkable that I am a reporter (7) 7. Illumination for the currently underweight? (8,5) 12. Reporting 100 who are too old (8) 13. Lads can produce malicious gossip (7) 15. Seabird almost short of breath? (6) 18. How an increase in pay may present itself (5) 19. Wane again (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Roost (5) 4. Ejection (7) 8. Miser (7) 9. Period (5) 10. Quote (4) 11. Obsession (8) 13. Timber (4) 14. Chimney (4) 16. Improper (8) 17. Foolhardy (4) 20. Dagger (5) 21. Anonymous (7) 22. Ignore (7) 23. Jaunty (5)

Down

1. Terrified (5-8) 2. Correct (5) 3. Cure (4) 4. Appoint (6) 5. Gregarious (8) 6. Slope (7) 7. Very jealous (5,4,4) 12. Firm (8) 13. Marriage (7) 15. Offend (6) 18. Love affair (5) 19. Hop (4)