Double Crossword
SATURDAY’S CRYPTIC SOLUTION:
ACROSS: 1 Scales 5 Apple 9 Edict 10 Patient 11 True 12 Progress 16 Shipbuilder 18 Analyses 21 Beer 23 Scapula 24 Ultra 25 Brief 26 Yearly DOWN: 2 Chihuahua 3 Lute 4 Supernumerary 6 Prior 7 Links 8 Hertz 13 Gala 14 Elemental 15 Spry 17 Groan 19 Nicer 20 Lapse 22 Puma
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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Could bowman be
more cunning? (6)
4 ‘Sweet’ clued cryptically
by model (6)
9 No end to vast
embrace (3)
10 Told to play goalie
with apiarist (9)
11 Southern sailors twist (5) 12 Stimulated ninety on back of wave with tide out (7)
14 Rely on euros again
by mistake (11)
17 Meander around,
given new title (7)
18 Three moves in that
place (5)
20 Company in this place joins new church for consistency (9)
22 American exits house
and finds garden tool (3) 23 Returning worry
about a plant (6)
24 Liveliness of
dancing sprite (6) QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Legitimately placed
to score a goal (6)
4 Lancashire dish (6)
9 Part of the head (3)
10 Marvellous (5-4)
11 Set principle (5)
12 Person who believes
that there is no God (7) 14 Charity that organises
Red Nose Day (5,6)
17 Make blonder (7)
18 Having a fresh
sharp taste (5)
20 Infant’s overalls (9)
22 Gearbox fluid (3)
23 Pencil rubber (6)
24 Upward climb (6)
DOWN
1 Horrified at hag’s
transformation (6)
2 Soldier turned up in vehicle for tobacco product (5)
3 Space for the foreign
weapon chamber (5-4) 5 Employ some famous
entertainers (3)
6 Money invested in
London, for example (7) 7 Weary, appearing drawn around conclusion of supper (5) 8 Even breaks breaking, and continuing to do so? (5-6)
13 Umpteen lacking
foreign aristocracy (9) 15 Person rearing cattle dashed and caught her (7)
16 He is in supreme
command (6)
17 Heavyweight boxer of
several stones? (5)
19 Number three
perhaps? (5)
21 Animal makes sound
of regret (3)
DOWN
1 Go too far with (6)
2 Expression of
indifference (5)
3 Resigned, negative (9) 5 Choose (3)
6 Confectionery made
from nuts and sugar (7) 7 Act of stealing (5)
8 Agreed in
advance (3-8)
13 Unpleasant-smelling
breath (9)
15 Thin stiff fabric of
silk or cotton (7)
16 Lace-hole (6)
17 Spoon for soup (5)
19 Not a soul (2-3)
21 Chimpanzee, eg (3)