DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

4. A realist has become cross (7) 8. Horn owl (6) 9. Just the types to disturb a class after reading starts (7) 10. South African gin for the eastern potentate (6) 11. Circles overhead (6) 12. What talkative people do or just the opposite (8) 18. Combined stock movement impressed the first of the entrepreneurs (8) 20. Very old boat

unearthed (6) 21. A place for the game open to view by the start of the contest (6) 22. The result of literally mixing

up the characters (7) 23. Tribes disguised by this

pigment (6) 24. People press on out of place (7)

Down

1. They are often spoon-fed in

this school subject (7) 2. Luck produces considerable

wealth (7) 3. It implies danger that puts

fellows on the spot (6) 5. For the man involved in Alcoholics Anonymous, it's abhorrent (8) 6. Get to grips with the

rigging (6) 7. What the Changing of the Guard provides (6) 13. Check the others with precipitation (8) 14. Leaves the sweets, we hear (7) 15. Spread all over the place (Webster gives a different version) (7) 16. Fruit for the Shakespearian carpenter (6) 17. Avoids slick ruses (6) 19. I pay M.O. to adjust sight defect (6)

QUICK CLUES: Across

4. Wed (7) 8. Logic (6) 9. Skipper (7) 10. Rotten (6) 11. Three-legged stand (6) 12. Harem (8) 18. Truthfulness (8) 20. Amend (6) 21. Group of six musicians (6) 22. Arrest (7) 23. Street entertainer (6) 24. Underground rooms (7)

Down

1. Put forward (7) 2. Restaurant employees (7) 3. Fighting (6) 5. Slaughterhouse (8) 6. Keep (6) 7. Senior journalist (6) 13. Fragrant shrub (8) 14. Error (7) 15. Enigma (7) 16. Rubbish (6) 17. Gun (6) 19. Street (6)