DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Only one fish on its own (4)

3. Only one gun's rail (8) 8. The end of the game for a fellow-worker (4)

9. Almost rhyming idiot carried by worker (8) 11. Legal colleague? (7-2-3) 13. Monday is out for current

producer (6)

14. Take exception to the

thing (6)

17. Wicked professor,

perhaps, as deputy... (4-8) 20. ...took the meeting, but favoured one party beforehand (8)

21. Fall causes doctor bit of work (4) 22. Puts in the dark, perhaps,

about pleasures (8)

23. Quit the socialist side (4)

Down

1. What a corpse! No

nonentity! (8)

2. Allow to descend in

disappointment (3-4)

4. Rent is a sort of

supplement (6)

5. Pulverized by graduate, it may

tempt the fish (10)

6. In the morning everybody gets

up to see the animal (5) 7. Sounds to be proper

ceremony (4)

10. Boiling about hothead

gleaming (10)

12. Tips note into quarry (5,3)

15. The Spanish mountain endlessly reeks of deciduous growth (3,4)

16. Menace from the mad hatter (6)

18. One transaction that is as good as possible (5)

19. Some first-class pedal pushers were in a hurry (4)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Rush (4)

3. Ready (8)

8. Certain (4) 9. Fiction-writer (8) 11. Perplexity (12) 13. Compositions (6) 14. Congenital (6) 17. Incarceration (12) 20. Mitigated (8) 21. Chief (4)

22. Pause (8)

23. Yield (4)

Down

1. Out of action (8) 2. Writes untidily (7) 4. Brawler (6) 5. Excelling (3-7) 6. Rule (5)

7. Obligation (4) 10. Skip school (4,6) 12. Example (8) 15. Function (7)

16. Agree (6) 18. Disguises (5)

19. Whip (4)