DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1 & 4 Ac. Hip, hip, hooray, for instance! (5,2,5)

8. Showing concentration for tennis, maybe, before the end of the game (7)

9. French names embracing the right standards (5)

10. Bygone career that gives the clergyman no alternative (4)

11. Young attendants required round a ship for sea trips (8)

13. See 14 Across

14 & 13 Ac. Ideal men preparing a source of metal (4,4)

16 & 17 Ac. Take a risk and ardently indulge in the game (4,4,4)

20. Water plant for southern border (5)

21. Undefined number of coppers, we hear, will produce the charge (7)

22. A treacherous creature could be

present (7)

23. React badly to a sign of

omission (5)

Down

1. Where victims were bound to be punished (8,5)

2. Evaluates payments on property (5)

3. Decline to produce washing equipment (4)

4 & 15 Dn. Traffic arrangement for the single-minded? (3-3,6)

5. This contains tea, we hear, in a mixture of arsenic! (8)

6. Confused grandee in a passion (7)

7. Impetuous words of the doctor diagnosing measles? (4,9)

12. No specified situation when year is out of joint (8)

13. Take no direct course to the sea (7)

15. See 4 Down

18. Victor, losing his head, makes a shot wide of the bull (5)

19. Stirring story needing a bit of pep, I consider (4)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Silly (5) 4. Procession (7) 8. Desert (7) 9. Region (5) 10. Mail (4) 11. Elegant (8) 13. Row (4) 14. Kismet (4) 16. Saviour (8) 17. Profit (4) 20. Vigilant (5) 21. Offering (7) 22. Oriental (7) 23. Salute (5)

Down

1. Unsuitable (13) 2. Accumulate (5) 3. Whirlpool (4) 4. Transmit (6) 5. Reasonable (8) 6. Issue (7) 7. Diversion (13) 12. Upset (8) 13. Remedy (7) 15. Defeated (6) 18. Revile (5) 19. Circle (4)