Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Current amount to be endlessly mollycoddled (6) 4 Carriage racing to Israeli city (6)

8 Held by consul, Kylie angrily silent (5) 9 Corsets sorted out for chaperones (7) 10 Listener’s temporary block! (7)

11 Really divine rustic scene back inside (5) 12 Keep gold one in silent grand tomb (9)

17 Praise when former road tax cut short (5) 19 Cheese list eaten by boy (7)

21 Soft metal Edward begged for (7) 22 Directions with strange vaccine (5)

23 Illuminated whichever set of prayers (6) 24 Some weekend – alone in Cumbrian town (6)

DOWN

1 Historians, we realise, hold the solution (6) 2 Holy traveller, one converted girl in the afternoon (7)

3 Regal two boys (5) 5 Tend, when queuing, to hold cape (7)

6 Navy bashful about being hackneyed (5) 7 Leases out studio stands (6)

9 Completely occupied modifying son’s greed (9)

13 French one left a lair with no cargo (7)

14 Aged rum and date mix (7)

15 Cooked apple around noon for letter‑writing friend (3,3)

16 Partly rotten, Amelia’s tooth covering (6) 18 Stealing a financial newspaper! (5) 20 Children’s publication (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Upshot (6)

4 Dispossess (6)

8 Decorative (5)

9 Instructional talk (7) 10 Supermarket cart (7) 11 Indentation (5)

12 Long‑running TV

serial (4,5)

17 Become liable to (5) 19 Rootless wanderer (7) 21 Rebuke (4,3)

22 1970s dance‑music

style (5)

23 Attractive (6)

24 Surplus amount (6)

DOWN

1 Disprove (6)

2 Bending in a supple way (7)

3 Faithful (5)

5 Aromatic smoke (7) 6 Explode, as a volcano (5)

7 Grow molars etc (6) 9 Take in the hands (3,4,2)

13 Flight terminal (7) 14 Performer (7)

15 Circus tent (3,3) 16 Rivulets (6)

18 Travel by bike (5) 20 Book’s list of contents (5)