DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Place for briefs and suits (5,2,3) 7. Attempted in the above? (5) 8. See post being created for female writer (7) 10. Sets here could be the

finest (8)

11. Quiet tune for the couple (4) 13. Go back in the general retreat (6) 15. My rise could spell unhappiness (6) 17. Sour pastry

confection (4) 18. Planes skilled pilots

have? (8) 21. It's needed when a man gets a

telephone call (7) 22. Dismayed to be leading for

part of the match (5) 23. Right in the middle of the

cemetery (4,6)

Down

1. Cold-sounding country (5) 2. Due anger, perhaps, when too

young (5,3) 3. Key worker in an office? (6) 4. Loud Communist man (4) 5. Mean to state number of

years (7) 6. With difficulty on the

water? (2,1,7) 9. Apologetic nation in poor

condition (5,5) 12. Ignore the reduction (8) 14. Ran back at speed to tell a

story (7) 16. Forty five and not yet

married? (6) 19. Ale is spilt in the

passageway (5) 20. Generous type (4)

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QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Glasses (10) 7. Depart (5) 8. Feeble man (7) 10. Authorise (8) 11. Nought (4) 13. Disregard (6) 15. Nook (6) 17. A jot (4) 18. Unit of weight (8) 21. Sweetheart (7) 22. Silly (5) 23. Dramatist (10)

Down

1. European country (5) 2. Voters (8) 3. Drum (3-3) 4. Young male horse (4) 5. Oriental (7) 6. Secret (10) 9. Computer worker (10) 12. Driving (8) 14. Not man-made (7) 16. Vocalist (6) 19. Respond (5) 20. Minute (4)