Double Crossword

7 CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Fancied gentleman

indeed! (7)

5 Explorer put sailor in

bed (5)

8 Redesigned La Paz

square (5)

9 Walk as if drunk to

shock (7)

10 Small mature herb (4)

11 Tent Dave dismantled

resulted in a feud (8)

13 Hope carotid treatment is better for your bones? (11)

17 Readers initially bicker dreadfully about key university such as

Leeds (8)

19 Be sickly sweet, containing lots of yoghurt for starters (4) 21 It might cover you if gale

erupts loudly (3,4)

22 Missing a brass band

sound’s great energy (5) 23 One in island race, a

new giant (5)

24 Ridicule the French politician having nothing on (7)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Morale‑boosting

speech (3,4)

5 Lifting apparatus (5)

8 Hidden store (5)

9 External surface (7) 10 Thieves’ spoils (4)

11 Long flowing party

ribbon (8)

13 Complementary

(medicine) (11)

17 Equine transport (8) 19 Petty quarrel (4)

21 Second court case (7) 22 In the midst of (5)

23 Imperial unit of

weight (5)

24 Wrongful act (7)

DOWN

1 Warehouse unfinished,

almost set to topple (6)

2 Walk in cocky manner, beginning to swing dog’s tail? (7)

3 Boy hugging a horse (4) 4 Rude but precludes fist

coming out (13)

5 Cold person manipulating nautical retailer (8)

6 Noisily snack in bay (5)

7 Material, something

black and brown (6)

12 Ten past three (8)

14 Fashionable car hiding broken starter awaiting action (2,5)

15 For appropriate

monetary gain (6)

16 Joiner? There’s more than one in Weston‑super‑mare! (6) 18 What you might do with

a garden figure (5)

20 Look in the morning for

fertile soil (4)

DOWN

1 Preserve (6)

2 High‑pitched wind

instrument (7)

3 A long time (4)

4 Intricate

conundrum (6,7)

5 Till now (8)

6 Phrase with a

figurative meaning (5) 7 Hypothesis (6)

12 Show on the box (8) 14 Enhance (7)

15 Jets’ rivals in West

Side Story (6)

16 Theatrically

presented (6)

18 Maths proportion (5) 20 The Red Planet (4)