DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Prescribed amount of food that is weighed out, presumably (8,4)

7. Stop bread being

spoilt (5)

8. Near a broken ring (5) 9. See 5 Down 10. Rear trees! (9)

11. Sounds like one who interferes with the fruit tree (6)

12. Looked for a certain

variety, we hear (6)

15. Putting the brake on

whisky and gin mixed (9) 17 & 19Ac. First call in a black

suit! (3,5) 18. Boredom will make some of

the children nuisances (5) 19. See 17 Across

21. Just the equipment for

evening clothes (7,5)

Down

1. Instructor likely to keep

pupils on their toes! (6,6) 2. Hair style put up – that's the

gist of the matter (3) 3. Provide one with more

resources to fertilise! (6) 4. Living properly? That's quite

inaccurate (4,5)

5 & 9Ac. How pupils in confrontation see things? (3,2,3)

6. Create a bigger blow, as one

short of money may do (5,3,4) 7. Fear disturbing an adder (5) 10. How lots of things are

sold (2,7)

13. It's removed when one needs

a free hand (5)

14. Prepares a trench when

siding is falling to pieces (4,2) 16. The proprietor is one in debt

round the north (5)

20. A pound for clerical dress (3)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Map-maker (12) 7. Charm (5) 8. Forbidding (5) 9. Ovum (3)

10. Mentally

deranged (9)

11. Withdraw (6)

12. Sharp-witted (6) 15. Consequently (9)

17. Little child (3)

18. Improper (5)

19. Declaim (5)

21. Untenable (12)

Down

1. Dedication (12) 2. Unity (3)

3. Shifts (6) 4. Swiftly (9)

5. Throw out (5) 6. Displeasing (12)

7. Spectacle (5)

10. Keep on (9)

13. Unbind (5)

14. Churlish (6)

16. Consumed (5) 20. Idiot (3)