Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Insecure and broken
fan? Sue! (6)
4 Rest of parents lacking
leadership (6)
9 Large bird beside river
mammal (5)
10 Said, I viewed
something horrible (7) 11 Noble award produces
flap (3,4)
12 Set of drawers that’s revolutionary by the way (5)
13 Unusual prize to attach inside haberdashery item (3‑8)
18 Left a hideout with
cargo on board (5)
20 Speech connected with
inner proportion (7)
22 Set sail, wriggling toes in Indian beach resort (2,2,3)
23 Note part of sombre
verdict (5)
24 Quietly agreed to one
3‑D layout (6)
25 Rodent is after grain
initially, getting free (6)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Tax refund (6)
4 Concrete
floor‑finishing (6)
9 Blunder (5)
10 Avoidance (7)
11 Single‑handed (7) 12 Apprehend (5)
13 Barricaded (8,3)
18 Brazilian ballroom
dance (5)
20 Young hare (7)
22 Thought likely to
win (7)
23 Brief film part (5)
24 Adjoining shed (4‑2) 25 Hair falling over the
brow (6)
DOWN
1 More revolting gruel I
prepared (6)
2 Warriors from Asia with
rum getting drunk (7)
3 Turn after said warning on course and give up (5)
5 React badly to the
French molasses (7)
6 Book brought up with note to express feelings (5)
7 Confectionery almost dripping, but hardens outside (6)
8 Outgoing hymn is like
a slump (11)
14 Penalty points require
discretion (7)
15 Obvious that I’d enter
sports contest (7)
16 Ensign on large
vessel (6)
17 Embeds in collections,
perhaps (6)
19 Fruit, bit of damson, no
longer in vogue (5)
21 Some clambering to
find fossil resin (5)
DOWN
1 Thoroughness (6)
2 Horned American
bison (7)
3 Car tyre’s pattern (5) 5 Risked (7)
6 Official decree (5)
7 Small open boat (6)
8 Principal female film
star (7,4)
14 Recorder of daily
events (7)
15 Male supervisor (7) 16 Beneficial (6)
17 In residence (2,4)
19 Heavenly food (5)
21 Minister of religion (5)
Divide the grid into blocks that are either square or rectangular. Each block must frame a single number, and each block must contain the same amount of cells as the number it frames.