DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Does he give out what he doesn't want? (9)

8. Has the ability to preserve (3)

9. The contents are correct according to the footballer (6,5)

11. Where old-fashioned people learned to drill? (7)

12. Flat viewed from both ends (5)

13. Put into groups again in holiday place (6)

15. How the couple become one? (6)

17. Do they mark the correct time? (5)

18. My vehicle is red (7)

20. The lower classes given instructions? (5,6)

22. Part of Mark Antony's loan? (3)

23. Lend beast to players (5,4)

Down

2. Refreshment place in Turin, Naples, Rome, etc. (3)

3. Duck down in the bedroom, perhaps (5)

4. Most certain to put us up, the others, too! (6)

5. Such badges are kingly, given first-class backing (7)

6. What the speaker needs so as not to suffer in language? (6,5)

7. The opposite of bliss? (9)

10. Where, and how, a monarch plays the power game? (6,5)

11. Does it mean going to greater lengths for the patient? (9)

14. Lives with odd desires (7)

16. It's rare to frighten about 100 (6)

19. Russian leader goes to Russian mountains in the country (5)

21. Conduct flight operations? (3)

QUICK CLUES: Across

1. Pleasant (9)

8. Undivided (3)

9. Knowledge (11)

11. Ease (7)

12. Subject (5)

13. Dress (6)

15. Alight (6)

17. Monsters (5)

18. Achievement (7)

20. Insurer (11)

22. Horse (3)

23. Seriously (9)

Down

2. Snare (3)

3. Weird (5)

4. Carrier (6)

5. Letter (7)

6. Satisfaction (11)

7. Stupid (9)

10. Come to nothing (4,7)

11. Argument (9)

14. Remainder (7)

16. Moneylender (6)

19. Oath (5)

21. Fish that may be electric? (3)