Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Itches to develop moral
principles (6)
4 Month on shuttle round
Asian island (6)
8 Pushed and crowded
without leader (5)
9 Overheated, some
prefer ventilation (7)
10 Rivet from Tehran
moving on lake (7)
11 Excavated – take care,
you hear! (5)
12 Non‑drinker ate brains
served up (9)
17 Not even lady rejects commercial, strangely (5)
19 Only working parent housed after a peculiarity (7)
21 Determined person
enters, a tad unsure (7) 22 Heavyweight returning to church to make a mark (5)
23 Cuts of beef placed by the gambler, we hear? (6)
24 Sinew obtained by fellow after perfect score (6)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Match referee (6)
4 Traditional Japanese
hostess (6)
8 Gumboot (5)
9 Public approval (7)
10 Domed building (7)
11 Flowers with romantic
associations (5)
12 Person or thing providing consolation (9)
17 ___ Atkinson, TV’S Mr
Bean (5)
19 Bowling style (7)
21 Gluey (7)
22 Revise (5)
23 Irksome (6)
24 Out of focus (6)
DOWN
1 Dodges – hoodwinks,
but not at first (6)
2 Late afternoon meal I hate thrown around good hospital (4,3)
3 Drink to police division
and queen (5)
5 People using blades causing trouble in San Remo (7)
6 Gloss observed around
front of house (5)
7 Turn it wildly, even
when cluttered (6)
9 Decline a role and go
to pieces (4,5)
13 Prank following TV company’s high‑flyer (7)
14 Oven‑cooked mash or
dates (7)
15 Wanderers cooking
damson (6)
16 Dash from the
off‑licence? (6)
18 Male duck, first of ducks with gardening tool (5)
20 Oz, where spring
hasn’t begun (5)
DOWN
1 Heedless (6)
2 Judicious (7)
3 Man‑made silk (5)
5 Short scene from a
film (7)
6 Celestial bodies (5)
7 Nearly (6)
9 Having some correspondence or resemblance (9)
13 Tropical rainy
season (7)
14 Nuclear generator (7) 15 Formal neckerchief (6) 16 Sycophantic (6)
18 Thin (hair) (5)
20 Communicate over the
net (5)