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Double Crossword

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CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Limits jumps (6) 4. Supplies punishment instrument (6) 9. As a result of insignific­ance (13) 10. Grey orc seen around a shop (7) 11. Produce a fraudulent imitation of a smithy (5) 12. Miser going out of a French city (5) 14. Race to get a hat (5) 18. Mixed paint is unsuitable (5) 19. Inactivity, i.e. train trouble (7) 21. Area of the huge Robin Hood roundabout? (13) 22. Loath to write a bit of poetry (6) 23. Selected a name for Korea (6)

Down

1. It could be one across (6) 2. Terribly poor, cute, naive and unhelpful (13) 3. Man at the church ball (5) 5. Fretful about an earth-nut (7) 6. Perhaps Robin’s cut into the donations (13) 7. Vegetables for Scandinavi­ans (6) 8. She’s a gem (5) 13. Games for strikers? (7) 15. Terribly naive about northern capital (6) 16. Animal thus discovered in a rubbish container (5) 17. Terrible danger in a plot (6) 20. Not the heart of this planet (5)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Cower (6) 4. Obscure (6) 9. Comprehens­ion (13) 10. School bag (7) 11. Compare (5) 12. Inlet (5) 14. Romany (5) 18. Small bottle (5) 19. Gloomy (7) 21. Inapt (13) 22. Rock (6) 23. Capsule (6)

Down

1. Awkward (6) 2. Undefined (13) 3. Width (5) 5. Fine (7) 6. Like lightning (5,2,1,5) 7. Motor (6) 8. Unmoving (5) 13. Overshadow (7) 15. Raise (6) 16. Detest (5) 17. Senior (6) 20. Grub (5)

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