Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Cop right by place of

work (7)

5 Set is back in

locations (5)

8 Right to leave crowd to

get leather strap (5)

9 Detest a copper cover

for foreign castle (7)

10 The majority of Half

Moon Street (4)

11 Made pale, turn and

belch (8)

13 I meet milady, turning

straight away (11)

17 What may be great,

better or second (8)

19 Lift inventor through

hypnotism (4)

21 Panic at change of

skipper (7)

22 Kipling wolf’s alias, put

in the Spanish (5)

23 Hospital tender (5)

24 Directions to dark room make it hard to read (7)

DOWN

1 Prompt me into

changes (2,4)

2 Drifting debris, note

plenty before lunch (7) 3 Oddly craggier

enclosure (4)

4 Obstinate behaviour from an electric car (13)

5 Do not move injured

nag in the country (8)

6 Alien trapped by the mutant canines, for example (5)

7 Robust ringleader comes in to scrutinise (6)

12 Bleak time, cooked

sole eaten (8)

14 Supply Article 50, after

51 years! (7)

15 Nasty count traps a

bird (6)

16 Lion starts tiring on the

slope (6)

18 Caught a piranha

devouring animal (5) 20 Not ordained by law, as it’s clerical beginners (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Intensify (5,2)

5 Foundation (5)

8 Vapour (5)

9 Form a mental picture

of (7)

10 Urban settlement (4)

11 Finicky (8)

13 Analgesic (11)

17 Deliberately

overhear (6,2)

19 Wealthy, affluent (4) 21 Sightseeing

holidaymaker (7)

22 Spry (5)

23 Postpone (5)

24 Fashion anew (7)

DOWN

1 Divide in two (6)

2 Force that resists

changes in motion (7)

3 Slightly wet (4)

4 Government

leader (5,8)

5 Possible to endure (8) 6 Blouse‑like garment (5) 7 Rough drawing (6)

12 Part away from the

outside (8)

14 Loudly (7)

15 Coated, eg with

silver (6)

16 Filch (6)

18 Scrape mark (5)

20 Keeps pestering (4)