DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Superlatively oriental (11) 9. Vehicle requiring endless caution (3) 10. Right name for frightening experience (9) 11. Stretchers used for carrying luggage (5) 13. One who once took part as

Gradgrind, for instance (7) 14. Beastly work for which a kind of engine is required (6) 16. Show part of the promenade pictorially (6) 18. Travelling actor is one with a considerable vocabulary of expletives, we hear! (7) 19. Direct 9 (5) 20. Lucky turn o' fate (9) 21. Look at a letter, by the sound of it (3) 22. Keen competition among seamstresses? (6,5)

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2 & 21Dn. One ugly scar under a respiratory cell (3-3) 3. Is not changing place in the Aegean (5) 4. Teased for being poorly clad (6) 5. Men hate being badly affected by fire-damp (7) 6. How the sails went obliquely awry (9) 7. Frightened by a corpse? (6,5) 8. Occult sign for those who are dictated to (11) 12. Place of assembly for the first of the contestants on the racetrack (9) 15. Give a lecture on obsolete monetary unit (7) 17. Army engineer in lawsuit that can be ironed out (6) 19. In sea arrangement for Tuscan destination (5) 21. See 2 Down

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Plane crash (3,8) 9. Frozen (3) 10. Structure (9) 11. Viper (5) 13. Strategy (7) 14. Butt (6) 16. Sobriquet (6) 18. Accept (7) 19. Perfume (5) 20. Undeveloped (9) 21. By way of (3) 22. Autonomous (11)

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2. Hedera (3) 3. Put off (5) 4. Layers (6) 5. Formal (7) 6. Get rid of (9) 7. Man-hater (11) 8. Unnecessary (11) 12. Management (9) 15. Building (7) 17. Determine (6) 19. Velocity (5) 21. Front (3)