DOUBLE CROSSWORD

YESTERDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION: Across: 4 Airlock; 8 Editor; 9 Account; 10 Signal; 11 Avenue; 12 Composer; 18 Teething; 20 Fencer; 21 Plight; 22 Outrage; 23 Debris; 24 Secrete. Down: 1 Seasick; 2 Big game; 3 Monaco; 5 In charge; 6 Lionel; 7 Census; 13 Set right; 14 Niggard; 15 Egotist; 16 Refuse; 17 Scorer; 19 Teller.

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. Before the end of

August, fashions will be unpretentious (6)

4. Stops entry to cathedral precincts (6)

9. Could it be part of the armament of underwater craft? (3-7,3)

10. They’re easily deceived by underground shoots (7)

11. Lower the sailor before the sea becomes disturbed (5)

12. Some of the professional armies cause a scare (5)

14. A drink highly respected in Ethiopia (5)

18. Water vessels found right among the sheep (5)

19. Volume to give satisfaction (7)

21. One gets released after being shot! (6,7)

22. As a lathe operator he was an artist (6)

23. About a coin of no great age (6)

Down

1. Is to think about illtreatment (6)

2. It’s his job to see that people settle (4,9)

3. The kind of coach seen in “Cinderella” (5)

5. Get the file on the generation to show genealogy (7)

6. Some strain that’s associated with a particular star (9,4)

7. One taking part in operas in Germany (6)

8. Kind of protector for treasure store (5)

13. Knight upset by fish concoction (7)

15. Timber put in the refashioned head-piece (6)

16. The range of a policeman in the south-east (5)

17. One of the townsman’s ways (6)

20. The start of the holiday in pleasant recess (5)

QUICK CLUES:

Across 1. Diminish (6) 4. Triple (6)

9. Mixed (13) 10. Paddy (7)

11. Pale (5)

12. At no time (5) 14. Border (5) 18. Denude (5) 19. Dispossess (7) 21. Amusement (13) 22. Abandon (6) 23. Pure (6)

Down 1. Distant (6) 2. Crumbles (13) 3. Encourage (5) 5. Plunder (7) 6. Comradeship (13) 7. Relieving (6) 8. Collapse (5) 13. Sovereign (7) 15. Climb (6)

16. Perfect (5) 17. Subside (6)

20. Nip (5)

YESTERDAY’S QUICK SOLUTION: Across: 4 Disrupt; 8 Office; 9 Asinine; 10 Caller; 11 Asleep; 12 Decision; 18 Overcast; 20 Assail; 21 Strict; 22 Quality; 23 Sinner; 24 Degrade. Down: 1 Concede; 2 Afflict; 3 Access; 5 Instance; 6 Rankle; 7 Ponder; 13 Isolated; 14 Valiant; 15 Stature; 16 Assume; 17 Sailor; 19 Retain.