Double Crossword

7 CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Allocate as token (6)

4 Rudely pushes canal

vessels (6)

9 Green material for parking spaces, we hear (5)

10 Result not in, has to

arrive (7)

11 Deputy to have base at

home (5‑2)

12 During rows we argue and use bad language (5)

13 Term or theme adjusted

for heat gauge (11)

18 Fill to the brim, taking

to little dog (3‑2)

20 Boy put hydrogen in

cold liquor (7)

22 Lavish rambling houseplant has gone (7)

23 Year after language is spoken at noble domain (5)

24 Religious person ending daylight robbery (6)

25 Yield awkwardly about point of facial feature (6)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Return (2,4)

4 Pour into another

container (6)

9 Course of a journey (5) 10 Following a circular

path (7)

11 Unexpected boon (7) 12 Maple ___, popular

pancake topping (5)

13 Job that requires a

hod (11)

18 Edible nut of the

hickory tree (5)

20 Eminent (7)

22 Poke around,

ransack (7)

23 Toy babies (5)

24 Pass, as time (6)

25 Several,

grammatically (6)

DOWN

1 Sailor leads woman to

the nun (6)

2 Leaves chaps in

torment (7)

3 Somewhat meagre education leads to avarice (5)

5 Entertainer’s tastier

cooking (7)

6 Farmyard bird goes unsteadily round the ring (5)

7 Steamship carrying fruit

and weapons (6)

8 Where things descend to if unpretentious? (4,2,5) 14 Put down and iron

again? (7)

15 Lie Cath exposed,

being moral (7)

16 Partly devout, mostly

extreme (6)

17 Quietly‑sung poem

Edward performed (6) 19 Hurry into exercise to

get trim (5)

21 Leaves holder for helper on course, reportedly (5)

DOWN

1 Vehicle shed (6)

2 Gaffe (7)

3 French pancake (5)

5 Diplomatic building (7) 6 Michaelmas daisy (5) 7 Brightly coloured

spring flowers (6)

8 Expressions of

sympathy (11)

14 Solicit support (7)

15 Cloudy, hazy (7)

16 Thin on the ground (6) 17 Ferret‑like creature (6) 19 Punctuation mark (5) 21 Affected by sea

levels (5)