DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES: Across
1. In Roman Catholic setting the prophet produces an object of reverence (5)
4. See 11 Across
8. See 17 Across
9 & 16Ac. Maverick
trumpeter! (5,8)
10. What bakers do, we hear, as
a necessity (4) 11 & 4Ac. They are graduated for
those who take physics (8,7) 13. Military policeman after petty-officer for ostentatious display (4)
14. Fish not yet caught, one
hears (4)
16. See 9 Across
17 & 8Ac. He's personally responsible for the position he's in (4-4,3) 20. See 23 Across
21. The fellow gets a certain time
for a particular assignment (7) 22. Master copy for various
clients (7)
23 & 20Ac. Publicity man to show lack of tension in contemporary surroundings (5,5)
Down
1. Figures of classical
significance (5,8)
2. Take up temporary accommodation at the gatehouse (5)
3. A thousand in international
settlement (4)
4. For the man of finance this is
regarded as a certainty (6)
5. A word in America for the
railhead (8)
6. It needs fifty to light the fuel (7) 7. Dramatically speaking, they deal
with all sorts of properties (5,8) 12. Give chap time, maybe, to be
downright in speech (8)
13. Go in front – it's soft to go
back (7)
15. Top coat for me in back lane (6) 18. What the first of the rubbers
will do in comfort! (5)
19. Break the vessels up (4)
QUICK CLUES: Across
1. Spate (5) 4. Refuse (7)
8. Unfasten (7) 9. Even (5)
10. Ripped (4)
11. Theft (8)
13. Nobleman (4) 14. Otherwise (4) 16. Defames (8)
17. Chief (4)
20. Dodge (5)
21. In arrears (7) 22. Pullover (7)
23. Support (5)
Down
1. Perfection (13) 2. Happen (5)
3. Deceased (4) 4. Substitute (6)
5. Guilty (8)
6. Bill (7)
7. Illumination (13) 12. Slope (8)
13. Flow from (7)
15. Warmth (6)
18. Viper (5)
19. Minus (4)