Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 To get furthest, just emboss it evenly (6)

4 Legal document gets the man to squirm (6)

9 Measure round West and search for water (5)

10 Commissioned soldiers lose right to bureaux (7)

11 A weed in the silt, shimmering (7)

12 Steer convertible and synchronise again (5)

13 Term or theme adjusted for heat gauge (11)

18 Reversible note (5)

20 Bill is ready to sing (7)

22 Resolute enough to stop the bloodshed (7)

23 Swore badly – even more so! (5)

24 Snooker rest with eight legs? (6)

25 Loud insect circling tree (6)

DOWN

1 Put idea out, but not one to modernise (6)

2 Sentimental crush around week one (7)

3 Ready to block the foreign bad weather (5)

5 Judge to make mention of two points (7)

6 Levy suggested for small nails (5)

7 Tears off with unknown substitute (6)

8 What a moth will do is appear (4,2,5)

14 Doctor Cameron love story (7)

15 Have they escaped from awful regimes? (7)

16 Before noon, gets through and entertains (6)

17 Only me to trust (6)

19 In arena, a fitting canteen service (inits) (5)

21 A first example (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 American underground system (6)

4 Word for expressing the time (6)

9 Gather together (5)

10 Cloudiness (7)

11 Drew off liquid from (7)

12 Energetic Cuban dance (5)

13 Hill climber (11)

18 Guitar-plucking noise (5)

20 Having no cargo on board (7)

22 Artist’s paint board (7)

23 Group of islands in Polynesia (5)

24 Variety of steak (3-3) 25 Food retailer (6)

DOWN

1 Beer and lemonade mixture (6)

2 Swaggering display of fearlessness (7)

3 Causing fires deliberately (5)

5 Vexation arising from disappointment (7)

6 Drug obtained from poppies (5)

7 Array of telephone buttons (6)

8 Kindly, benevolent (4-7)

14 Every day between dusk and dawn (7)

15 Prevalent in a certain region (7)

16 Dazed state (6)

17 Not just, biased (6)

19 Speak off the cuff (2-3)

21 Vanquished person (5)