Double Crossword
ACROSS: 1 Escort 5 Leaps 9 Empty 10 Nearest 11 Pure 12 Reversal 16 Light-headed 18 Knitwear 21 Deli 23 Atheist 24 Posit 25 Adorn 26 Divine. DOWN: 2 Supermini 3 Onyx 4 Tender-hearted 6 Error 7 Pasta 8 Tempo 13 Exam 14 Stevenson 15 Chew 17 Rifts 19 Noted 20 Their 22 Spiv
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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Tim first to leave wedding of Japanese commander (6)
4 Poor person to turn
in journal (6)
9 Wet earth found in
Bermuda (3)
10 Alarms legal entitlement in English marshy area (9)
11 Short emotional poem
Cyril composed (5)
12 Yarns I found in
shops (7)
14 Combine section
and load, poorly (11) 17 Mixer left during
drunken spree (7)
18 Refusal of weight
unacceptable (3,2)
20 Rescue container I found in beauty parlour (9)
22 Eggs found in a part
of Slovakia (3)
23 Former key worker
in the office (6)
24 Small pastry features
in sentimental film (6)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Erase (6)
4 Bumpy (6)
9 Mass of salt water (3) 10 Gave authority to (9)
11 Hackneyed, tired (5) 12 End result (7)
14 Describe in a falsely
appealing way (11)
17 Arrive and register
at a hotel (5,2)
18 Unpleasantly loud (5) 20 Having both feet on
the ground (9)
22 In good condition (3) 23 Make angry (6)
24 Minister of religion (6)
DOWN
1 Head of snake enough
for specimen (6)
2 Sequence of rank (5)
3 Wild fun does restrain copper lacking direction (9)
5 Tree has fallen (3)
6 Forecast needs advertising ahead of proclamation (7)
7 Flowers in Comoros
estate (5)
8 Organise residential
form of transport (6,5) 13 Ruling India besieged
by big guns (9)
15 Partly cover
beyond circuit (7)
16 Take the air in Greater
Manchester village (6) 17 Live group
hemmed in (5)
19 Soldiers in harbour turning around circle (5)
21 Stomach muscles
– an asset for slow motion? (3)
DOWN
1 Cease, pause (6)
2 Alpaca-like animal (5) 3 Attraction such as
Disneyland (5,4)
5 Of a kind not seen
before (3)
6 Assorted (7)
7 Touch lightly with
the elbow (5)
8 Chance (11)
13 Scientific (9)
15 Outside (4-3)
16 Supernatural (6)
17 Group of trees (5)
19 Deduce, conclude (5) 21 Drinking vessel with
a handle (3)