Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Warehouse unfinished,

almost set to topple (6) 4 Church messenger devoured lamb joint first (6)

8 Coach tour diverted

going round square (5) 9 Watch old boy deliver

tennis ball (7)

10 Obscure city piles

collapsed (7)

11 Northern sheep beside

large post (5)

12 Decoration puts naval

personnel in a spot (9) 17 Chore mixing

pigment (5)

19 Head of government authorises place of execution (7)

21 Spear I’d found in

English river (7)

22 Human nature to consume divine food (5)

23 Most recent state reformed after end of April (6)

24 View of snake etc,

ruined (6)

DOWN

1 Falter, tired out

around top of hill (6) 2 Gently touch girl’s

kneecap (7)

3 Drink interrupted by year of mawkishness (5)

5 Distinctive nature of a concentrated extract (7)

6 Missile takes

a right line (5)

7 Archdeacon entering city in relaxed fashion (6)

9 Nearly entering plain during hours of darkness (9)

13 Corkscrews for the

batsmen? (7)

14 Beat counter

madly (7)

15 Patrol reassembled

by the entrance (6) 16 Angled a wooden strip around base of column (6)

18 I shot out of lift (5)

20 Lighting providing

fifty amperes (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Covering for a car

wheel (3-3)

4 Afternoon nap,

especially in Spain (6) 8 Local government

leader (5)

9 Recreation, hobby (7) 10 Series of rocks lying

off the Isle of Wight (7) 11 Indicate similarities

between (5)

12 Covered with

plumes (9)

17 Directive (5)

19 Put up money for (7) 21 Back with funds (7)

22 Macho (5)

23 Place of supreme

bliss (6)

24 Daze, trance (6)

DOWN

1 Benign, kind (6)

2 Culinary laurel

piece (3,4)

3 Fourth month (5)

5 Isolated (7)

6 Sneak around (5)

7 Getting long in the

tooth (6)

9 With great speed (4-5) 13 Line up (7)

14 Of a computer, designed to be used at one fixed location (7) 15 Back-scrubber (6)

16 Bowman (6)

18 Prima ___, female

opera soloist (5)

20 Planet’s path (5)