Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
1. Instrument to get twice the fish? (6,4) 7. The privilege of never being wrong? (5) 8. Longed to have deanery rebuilt (7) 10. Teach group to produce model railway? (5,3) 11. One who had failed to get her man? (4) 13. Agile enough to put doctor in the river! (6) 15. We hear childish horse in strong wind turns out to be geese (6) 17. Little bit of sport in Yorkshire (4) 18. Uneasy because the others don’t get so much? (8) 21. Ale laws as defence against the advance of water (3-4) 22. In courts we are to take the oath (5) 23. Resolved to put off when dug up (10)
Down
1. Closely follow mother in doctrine (5) 2. Lent a gun to sort out the complications (8) 3. Non-experts meanly put out (6) 4. Where to get the better of a policeman? (4) 5. Vice emperor on the decline (7) 6. Communicate musically? (5,5) 9. Randy spies where medicines are made up (10) 12. Pig-headed worker is supporter of faction (8) 14. Worker and when he’ll get a commission? (7) 16. Blamed for the row (6) 19. Put me up at last to make corrections (5) 20. The end of the game for the officer? (4)
YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION:
Across: 7 On the high seas; 8 Outlines; 9 Pine; 10 Prosit; 12 Extras; 14 Astern; 16 Locate; 18 Flue; 20 Tipstaff; 22 Man of the match. Down: 1 Inquires; 2 Shells; 3 Thin; 4 Eggshell; 5 Ash-pit; 6 Lawn; 11 Tiny tots; 13 Artifice; 15 Erenow; 17 Cathay; 19 Leap; 21 Peer.
QUICK CLUES:
Across
1. Competence (10) 7. Odour (5) 8. Clap (7) 10. Divinity (8) 11. Lapse (4) 13. Hate (6) 15. Small (6) 17. Monster (4) 18. Squeeze (8) 21. Spurs (7) 22. Rule (5) 23. Frailty (10)
Down
1. Eat away (5) 2. Intrepid (8) 3. Fee (6) 4. Catch sight of (4) 5. Necklace (7) 6. Finicky (10) 9. Gloomy (10) 12. Scatter (8) 14. White ant (7) 16. Courteous (6) 19. Wrongs (5) 20. Mute (4)
YESTERDAY’S QUICK SOLUTION:
Across: 7 Heterogeneous; 8 Innuendo; 9 Iota; 10 Severs; 12 Infirm; 14 Ostler; 16 Harass; 18 Plot; 20 Industry; 22 Paraphernalia. Down: 1 Keenness; 2 Refuse; 3 Soon; 4 Demolish; 5 Belief; 6 Just; 11 Straight; 13 Restrain; 15 Lethal; 17 Rascal; 19 Leap; 21 Dire.