Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Engineers bagging broken bulb debris (6)

4 Escapee loses heart where plane lands (6)

8 Companionable sailor to finish today (5)

9 Rascal thus meets another? (2-3-2)

10 Departed with Ronald some time after (5,2)

11 Beginning of Mozart’s operatic song for Callas (5)

12 Place to look out for dog, accepting terrible din (3,6)

17 Copper can interrupt (3,2)

19 Some men, for centuries, administer vigorously (7)

21 Fondness won’t begin to show delight (7)

22 Disturb superior group (5)

23 Male’s alternative relative (6)

24 Deep gorge in Tuscany once (6)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Thunder-struck (6)

4 Ordained minister (6)

8 Canal vessel (5) 9

Course of treatment (7)

10 Doubting Thomas (7)

11 Check for size (3,2)

12 Regard with disapproval (5,4)

17 Useful possession (5)

19 Ruler of a great dominion (7)

21 Person who leaves college early (7)

22 Walk wearily (5)

23 Attractive (6)

24 Merriment (6)

DOWN

1 Hike right, taking stroll (6)

2 Where washer sat with city vessel (7)

3 Hen’s early trouble (5)

5 Shifting dune engulfs limb that’s unprotected (7)

6 Bird raised among hundred, a waterbird (5)

7 One may, questionably, seek old farmer (6)

9 Feeling conscious about first of March (9)

13 Aspiring girl in a webcast (7)

14 Is operating with honey, one out to be lazy (4‑3)

15 Shout loudly for second dairy product (6)

16 Physicist went off and on (6)

18 Implied one must be bound by discretion (5)

20 Rural deity, answer to animal life (5)

DOWN

1 Surprise attack from a place of hiding (6)

2 Feminine reflexive pronoun (7)

3 Species of wheat (5)

5 Illuminate (5,2)

6 Card game (5)

7 Sharp front tooth (6)

9 Become linked again (9)

13 Distant settlement (7)

14 Tell (the story) (7)

15 Short of cash (4,2)

16 Award, usually in the form of a cup (6)

18 ___ halfpenny, old pub game (5)

20 Kebab bread (5)