Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Burning to involve

many in defamation (8) 6 Just beats radio

signal (4)

8 Country homes created by Romans, perhaps (6)

9 Inner love makes

detective glum (6)

10 Many implore new

crossword setter (8)

13 Cockney conceals

fateful March date (4) 14 With no limits, casino finally closed, broken by writer (4‑5)

17 Rear animal (4)

18 Choice of representatives that makes one cross (8)

19 Girl cooked algae

around noon (6)

21 Way to confuse

setter (6)

23 Bleak ending – cutting

edge (4)

24 Portrayed ancient Briton caught in the act (8)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Style of

spectacles (4‑4)

6 Short burst of

breath (4)

8 Surprised,

dumbfounded (6)

9 Official witness of

documents (6)

10 Three‑wheeled bike (8) 13 Coated with sugar (4) 14 Casual short‑sleeved

cotton top (4,5)

17 Simon ___, children’s

game (4)

18 Chuckling (8)

19 Pleasant surprises (6) 21 Switch on a radio (4,2) 23 Tangle (in string) (4)

24 Job interview for

actors (8)

DOWN

2 Roughly mowed a

field (6)

3 A party brings

commotion (3)

4 Once lines are removed from cheek (9)

5 Clergymen included

exercises (3)

6 Apt to arrange tenner

tip (9)

7 One who mails an

advertisement? (6)

11 Going by tube with some paper is wishful thinking (4,5)

12 Beans showing, but they aren’t the first (7‑2)

15 Champion with initial

part of target (6)

16 Dad, I announced, is a

sailor (6)

20 Assist one in short

commercial (3)

22 Proceeded to reveal

mythical bird (3)

DOWN

2 Look up to (6)

3 Egyptian tasselled

hat (3)

4 Traditional way of

behaving (3,6)

5 Religious sister (3)

6 Male head of a

family (9)

7 Counterfeiter (6)

11 Breakfast pastry (9) 12 Used up (9)

15 Senior nurse (6)

16 Very dark blue

pigment (6)

20 Body of salt water (3) 22 Hard‑shelled fruit (3)