Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across 1. Animal arrived with learner on back (5)

4. Did seem to be a bad thing to do (7)

8. Left charge for allotment (7) 9. Signifies agency (5)

10. Using them properly is child’s play, of course (4) 11. Arm cab in Welsh riot (8) 13. Luggage container one foot long? (4)

14. I had the French doing nothing (4)

16. Strenuous, having formerly been on stage (8)

17. Finished in a higher position, perhaps (4)

20. Terrier isn’t one to give up easily without hesitation (5) 21. Establish post office in curiously inapt surroundings (7)

22. Rue gory villainy (7)

23. Put one’s foot down in it most readily (5) Down 1. Landlord from London, for example - the first in London (7,6)

2. The girl is about right to take to the altar (5)

3. Put down 50 to get help (4) 4. When the dynamo broke down? (6)

5. Thus I object to corpse of person of importance (8) 6. Being shifty, I have to save up beforehand (7)

7. Agents I’d tried went to pieces (13)

12. Situation vacant - no stamp required (4,4)

13. Fortifying by putting in twos? (7)

15. Dishonour results if many go out (6)

18. There’s nothing in wrongdoing to give utterance to (5)

19. Catch sight of rising summits (4)