DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. What one has to pay for a

kind of hook (4) 8. See 9 Across 9 & 8Ac. Tried to lose the lead? (8,2,3,5) 10. Drains the energy from silly types (4) 12. Don't get distracted as those in the retinue will (6) 14. Use a lever differently to make disclosures (6) 15. The sea pink requires good husbandry (6) 17. Providing publicity for a first-class arena (6) 18. Invites somebody to take the top off the barrels (4) 19. One beset by unusually erratic standards (8) 21. One who helps to fill up the same form (10) 22. The flower girl came up for a sprinkler! (4)

Down

2. How the highly amused patient may be seen after an operation! (2,8) 3. Mountain ash? (4) 4. Made up for some of the meat

one devoured (6) 5. It's painful when touched – you

need a nurse! (6) 6. Makes a recovery and surmounts a difficulty (4,4) 7. So you'll find half of them over the United States (4) 11. They demand legal satisfaction for obvious quarrels (10) 13. It's a matter of sending out groups of diplomats to the East (8) 16. Equipment needed to get down to the job (6) 17. A beastly example of what Manila produces (6) 18. A recess in which father returns to the south east (4) 20. From the lake we refilled the

jug (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Dross (4) 8. Overstate (10) 9. Submarine (8) 10. Mirth (4) 12. Dog house (6) 14. Hypnotic state (6) 15. Dismount (6) 17. Shrewd (6) 18. Worry (4) 19. Soup (8) 21. Bigoted (10) 22. Loathe (4)

Down

2. Adviser (10) 3. Pool (4) 4. Maiden (6) 5. Horrified (6) 6. Expectant (8) 7. Present (4) 11. Agitation (10) 13. Denial (8) 16. Voucher (6) 17. Yearly (6) 18. Just (4) 20. Curse (4)