DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

4. Father returned to confirm the evidence and express satisfaction (7) 8. A wild beast becomes less disturbed (6) 9. Colonel-in-chief includes filly in the big race (7) 10 & 23Ac. Enter selected military unit and explain the minutiae (2,4,6)

11. One working on the farm

is a craft director (6)

12. The angler is holding a

bicycle (8)

18. Tip up public ash

container (8)

20. Shut up when the Afghan

language is translated (6) 21. Mowed a different piece of

grassland (6)

22. See 2 Down

23. See 10 Across

24. Object the potter's

reshaped (7)

Down

1. They go off sausages (7)

2 & 22Ac. Is it committed by a

London gang? (7,7) 3. Plumbers are needed to

measure them (6)

5. Tropical feature from

Lampeter (4,4)

6. Take stock, but get the wrong

result (6)

7 & 17Dn. A menace in the

nunnery? (6,6)

13. Completely defeats when

recounts are revised (8)

14. It casts a shadow on the

present time (7)

15. Where the writer got his material from (7)

16. It polishes a shock absorber (6)

17. See 7 Down

19. It's illegally used for smoking

jacket! (6)

QUICK CLUES: Across

4. Crack (7) 8. Exhilarated (6) 9. Greed (7)

10. Wept (6) 11. Nakedness (6) 12. Watchful (8) 18. Round (8) 20. Office (6) 21. Burrow (6) 22. Unaffected (7) 23. Shut (6)

24. Ebbed (7)

Down

1. Thoughtful (7) 2. Rubbish (7) 3. Disclose (6) 5. Devisor (8)

6. Step (6)

7. Relate (6) 13. Correct (8) 14. Malady (7) 15. Introduction (7) 16. Clergyman (6) 17. Renew (6)

19. Pair (6)