DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Boy taking graduate to dance (5) 4. His cocktails are explosive (7) 8. Harps on about unfortunate children (7) 9. To get cross in charge is dangerous (5) 10. What Canute couldn't control due to change of diet? (4) 11. Home for Hawaiian capitalists (8) 13. Hit a mollusc (4) 14. A roue in the garden? (4) 16. Small things knitters might make (8) 17. By which a reign may be measured? (4) 20. Lady of the manor? (5) 21. Great joy in breaking

toenail (7) 22. Rank with an old mare,

perhaps? (7) 23. One not winning different

roles (5)

Down

1. Light punishment given by judge who's a man of few words? (5,8) 2. Was gloomy concerning the

vehicle (5) 3. A man from New Zealand (4) 4. It's lucky to take a large

number to the races (6) 5. Left it on a junction before

examination of the shore (8) 6. Words on the river surface (7) 7. A sucker for housework? (6,7) 12. In which Chinese boats are

stored? (8) 13. One liking to cause trouble in

the kitchen (7) 15. Burn the new master (6) 18. Groups digging up tin in America (5) 19. As leaves do at the appropriate time over there? (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Bring upon oneself (5) 4. Evolve (7) 8. Desolate (7) 9. Ship (5) 10. Long river (4) 11. Define (8) 13. Upper rim (4) 14. Male deer (4) 16. Authorise (8) 17. Pudding ingredient (4) 20. Large juicy fruit (5) 21. Pasta dish (7) 22. Diminishes (7) 23. Figure (5)

Down

1. Immeasurably small (13) 2. Christmas song (5) 3. Public disorder (4) 4. Repudiated (6) 5. Speed (8) 6. Yearning (7) 7. He strives for the best (13) 12. Miserly sum (8) 13. Claspless bracelets (7) 15. Woos (6) 18. For the length of (5) 19. Greedy (4)