Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Lower the dignity of churchman embracing me (6)

4 Finally delivering rubbish to Santa’s home? (6)

8 Quickly open

a foreign spirit (5)

9 University has grain

for fabulous beast (7) 10 Legally wrong, keeping chaps in agony (7)

11 Leave town in

Croatia? (5)

12 Missing, having pocketed vessel, but not drinking (9)

17 Ancient tribe requiring

one nice change (5)

19 Heading off, cream too

whipped in cafe (3,4) 21 Delay post containing

American money (7) 22 Has to change

promises (5)

23 Stayed unusually

firm (6)

24 Saw and rule mostly snapped by carpenter’s mate (6)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Battered prawns (6) 4 Slapped lightly (6)

8 Abnormally high body temperature (5)

9 Trace mineral found in dairy products (7)

10 Stealer (of cattle) (7)

11 Jottings (5)

12 Tyrannised (9)

17 Wrath (5)

19 Ill‑mannered (7)

21 Mountaineer (7)

22 Fashion, create (5) 23 Horn of a deer (6)

24 Abounding in

broken rock (6)

DOWN

1 Discourages five

hundred relatives (6)

2 Dance into almost blue Ford saloon on motorway (7)

3 Head leaving specimen, more than enough (5)

5 Where is Suez extract?

Publish again (7)

6 Elf taking ring

round river (5)

7 Elaborate cereal, with no starter, devoured (6)

9 Pure incomplete account ain’t edifying (9)

13 Salary list in post (7)

14 Stagger around river

with pig’s foot (7)

15 Avoids young

women (6)

16 Before noon, gets through and entertains (6)

18 Follow directions and

take to court (5)

20 Perfume from a

foreign city (5)

DOWN

1 African wildlife tour (6) 2 Confidant (7)

3 Jeopardy, danger (5)

5 Hilly country (7)

6 Impose, force (5)

7 Rose variety (6)

9 Automobile

salesman (3,6)

13 Moral story (7)

14 Sitting behind the

steering wheel (7)

15 Board over a shop front which bears the shopkeeper’s name (6)

16 Flimsily constructed,

badly made (6)

18 Sparkle (5)

20 Shade of brown (5)