DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Minor roles for feet? (4-2,5) 9. Take out a former pamphlet (7) 10. Smell of a city in Italy as the natives know it (5) 11. Boredom with some drunken nuisances (5) 12. Favour otters swimming

to a point (7) 13. Preliminary sketches of

thugs (6) 15. Mistake over eye

parts (4-2) 18. Retires from making

vessels in metal (5,2) 20. Elementary computer

language (5) 22. Groan from a musical

instrument? (5) 23. For which you may get a ring

from the jeweller's (7) 24. Prudish about cattle

raids (6-5)

Down

2. Regulate one's behaviour in accordance with an area of London? (3,2) 3. Jacky? (7) 4. Essential character of a man

on a river (6) 5. Accumulate for a church

service (5) 6. Not a complicated

dance! (3-4) 7. Profane act that's certainly

not considerate (11) 8. Earned a lot of money and

built a boat (4,1,6) 14. Just vertical (7) 16. African country upset re.

alibi (7) 17. Creature from a fashionable

group (6) 19. A girl's upset about Ayrton (5) 21. Weight of a pebble? (5)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Shortening (11) 9. Retaliator (7) 10. Subject (5) 11. Vital organ (5) 12. Triumph (7) 13. Transgress (6) 15. Parson (6) 18. Condense (7) 20. Hatred (5) 22. Master (5) 23. Feeling (7) 24. Force (11)

Down

2. Musical drama (5) 3. Remove slackness (7) 4. Sudden (6) 5. Right (5) 6. Outdoor (4-3) 7. In vogue (11) 8. Substitute (11) 14. Pardoned (7) 16. Beware (4,3) 17. Hollow (6) 19. Ignoramus (5) 21. Fool (5)