Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Smell insect?

Rubbish! (6)

5 In sports car, fitting

garment (5)

9 To choose endless

theme (5)

10 It is clear that old boy

has five debts (7)

11 Clothing to boast

about (4)

12 Support Bill before

he is a pain (8)

16 A giant star I created during the ninth sign (11)

18 Excess making other

pal upset (8)

21 Small case kept in

perpetuity (4)

23 Old time greeting for

Shakespeare play (7) 24 Hot stuff I left to get

cold (5)

25 Oddball liable to start

things (5)

26 Anaesthetic for one – or two, three, four perhaps (6)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Kidnapper’s demand (6) 5 Ledge (5)

9 Senior member (5)

10 Hidden skeletons? (7)

11 Ailing (4)

12 Left closed (8)

16 Lack of compatibility

between facts (11)

18 Be very different (8)

21 Insolent (4)

23 Ice‑cream flavour (7)

24 Church council (5)

25 Quietly humorous (5)

26 Something easy

to do (6)

DOWN

2 Type of large

letters? (5,4)

3 A deer for a dollar (4)

4 PM’S welcoming

address? (4,9)

6 Country’s porcelain (5) 7 Coarse preliminary

sketch (5)

8 Something to act

upon (5)

13 Some biker blocking

part of pavement (4) 14 Ocean silt spread around where sea meets land (9)

15 Shrill greeting,

we hear (4)

17 Give up the

produce (5)

19 Alter, change, but not

at the moment (5)

20 Co‑ordinate neckwear,

fashionable (3‑2)

22 Dodgy deal where

coats turned up (4)

DOWN

2 Capture (by aliens,

perhaps?) (9)

3 Type, kind (4)

4 Construe wrongly (13)

6 Showjumping animal (5) 7 Loose‑limbed (5)

8 Strained (5)

13 Fuel cut from a bog (4) 14 Active by night (9)

15 Remnant of an old

wound (4)

17 Character in

Peter Pan (5)

19 Now broadcasting (2,3) 20 Fabric with a diagonal

weave (5)

22 Far from brand‑new (4)