DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. What soldiers, clerics and company representatives do (4,6) 7. Where you'll find political correspondents seek to pressurise (5) 8. Representative from the clay-pit (7) 10. Rent once squandered on curtain material (8) 11. This will blow up a room at the spa (4) 13. If care is used, this could provide transport (6) 15. An old light cloak (6) 17. Almost reluctant to do the cleaning (4) 18. Stumbled along, prepared to make a deal (8) 21. They secure an assortment of pastels (7) 22. Debauchee near northern

French town (5) 23. Experienced one providing care when Nat suffers horribly (5,5)

Down

1. A schedule for the board (5) 2. At which the player does

manual work? (8) 3. Trip abroad in the capital of

Greece (6) 4. Drug used in protracted

operation (4) 5. Figure out again what

narrators do (7) 6. They are divided into minute

sections (5,5) 9. Interpreting what's said from the mouth-piece (3-7) 12. Traveller unusually wary about food (8) 14. The first male colonist refusing to yield (7) 16. Picked ones by the church, maybe (6) 19. Seoul damaged by unpleasant parasite (5) 20. Cycle frame equipped with key

inside (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Pleasing (10) 7. Way (5) 8. Gave out (7) 10. Credulous (8) 11. Damage (4) 13. Stay (6) 15. Request (6) 17. Just (4) 18. Infirm (8) 21. Scrap (7) 22. Excel (5) 23. Compost (10)

Down

1. Thin soup (5) 2. Pre-meal drink (8) 3. Transfix (6) 4. Abominable snowman (4) 5. Tell (7) 6. Sociable (10) 9. Destruction (10) 12. Fake (8) 14. Restlessness (7) 16. Of teeth (6) 19. Father (5) 20. Espy (4)