DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Hardly an extensive record collection! (6,4) 7. Place where it's right to cook a meal (5) 8. Chic to a fault, but disordered (7) 10. Unequalled like the

House of Commons? (8) 11. Stop the shoot (4) 13. Reveal former model (6) 15. Aromatic compound that

might be closer (6) 17. Slow wild birds (4) 18. The pick of stringed

instruments? (8) 21. A party piece? (7) 22. Consumed at school,

say (5) 23. Is the saint upset? Just the opposite! (10)

Down

1. Paces out the room (5) 2. Anonymous reformed salesmen (8) 3. Insect lost without a copper (6) 4. Lose the thread? (4) 5. Literary device used by T.S. Eliot, perhaps (7) 6. Fell asleep, being unable to stay on (7,3) 9. It's said to be the full amount of praise (10) 12. Mad for unsweetened

biscuits (8) 14. Place in order for a bird (7) 16. Block the return of a record,

being awfully thin (6) 19. Evaluates speeds (5) 20. Car reverses in an inimitable

way (4)

QUICK CLUES:

Across 1. Handwriting (10) 7. Panic (5) 8. Corrosive (7) 10. Slowed down (8) 11. Bogus (4) 13. Hue (6) 15. Coil (6) 17. Vow (4) 18. Intermittent (8) 21. Stroke (7) 22. Influx (5) 23. Depressed (10) Down 1. Intended (5) 2. Many (8) 3. Hallowed (6) 4. Defeat (4) 5. Ewer (7) 6. Changeable (10) 9. Partnership in wrong-doing (10) 12. Estimate (8) 14. Network (7) 16. Animosity (6) 19. Storehouse (5) 20. Deposit (4)