Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Terrible noise from

tennis bat (6)

4 Be at great length to have rightful place (6)

9 Long way off in

Lindisfarne (3) 10 A table-leg collapsed during game (9) 11 South African girl

in steam bath (5)

12 Serious, fashionable

and rigid (7) 14 Bet it’s an electric

cell (11) 17 Thought briefly, carried on holding mushroom (7)

18 Cub pack leader on

a stormy lake (5)

20 Twisted arm needed

to be reset (9) 22 Smash success? (3) 23 Not so much gold

for the landlord (6) 24 Learnt about part of

a deer (6) QUICK CLUES ACROSS 1 Boil gently (6) 4 Relating to words (6) 9 Horse-like animal (3) 10 Factory workers,

collectively (4,5)

11 Take up again (5)

12 Lumpy or knotted (7) 14 Yam-like foodstuff (5,6) 17 Clergyman’s salary (7) 18 Canadian tree (5)

20 Device for keeping an

aircraft on course (9) 22 Dove’s sound (3)

23 Scope, room (6)

24 Pretty to view (6)

DOWN

1 Say no to rubbish (6)

2 Some scenic or fun

holiday island (5)

3 British brought in to measure out wall opening (9)

5 Brew tea then dine (3)

6 US city or country

given nothing (7)

7 Strewth! Home Counties Christmas birds (5)

8 Regular cut I rendered in the science of farming (11)

13 Great Dane wrecked open-air restaurant (3,6)

15 Seek votes using tough material on socialist leader (7)

16 Beat fish’s coating (6) 17 Animal arrived

and left (5)

19 Merman hiding in wet

hellhole (5)

21 Party embraces

upper-class couple (3)

DOWN

1 Treads and risers (6) 2 Stonecutter (5)

3 In another place (9)

5 Small fairy (3)

6 Tract (7)

7 Glaringly coloured (5) 8 Beginner’s swimming

stroke (5-6)

13 Self-operating (9)

15 Essential item for

a referee (7)

16 Courageous (6)

17 Slow garden pest (5) 19 Edible nut of the

hickory tree (5)

21 Small green

vegetable (3)