Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Soaks when walks

about East (6) 4 Fellow goes to the

Spanish church (6) 9 Allotment appears in part of misquotation (5) 10 Stick out if badly troubled with large omission (7) 11 Papers, ten, twitch

which is crazy (7) 12 Trendy Post Office

animal (5) 13 Very panicky mixing

final paints (2,1,4,4) 18 Page found in the

correct order (5) 20 Girl composer listened

to shrink (7) 22 After jack, perhaps, I

cut ace of hearts (7) 23 Pass on soldiers’

song (5) 24 Even so, moth was

metamorphosed (6) 25 Sportsman who may

get foiled? (6)

DOWN

1 Endless inquest

involved shiny disc (6)

2 Rewrite inane to public

schoolboy (7)

3 American city in hole to

get weaving? (5)

5 Temporary setbacks for

thumbs (7)

6 Stout left in device for

pulling beer (5)

7 Stay hidden on air bed,

say (3,3)

8 Perhaps channel can contain zero relaxed attitude? (11)

14 Plant retailer to flirt

so wildly (7)

15 Wonderfully happy when icy dill is chopped up (7)

16 American next to reptile

with flower (6)

17 Strong horse as yet

unreliable, right? (6)

19 Unusual object may make you inquisitive, not us (5)

21 Conform to an

incomplete language (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Sweltering (6) 4 Builds, fashions (6) 9 Rich powerful

person (5)

10 Pang of conscience (7)

11 Interesting incident (7) 12 Loathe, detest (5) 13 French cold cooked meats (11) 18 Joined by melting,

welded (5) 20 Alligator pear (7) 22 Letters for overseas (7) 23 Trifle, deal playfully

(with) (5) 24 Means of curing

a disease (6)

25 Voracious (6) DOWN 1 Meddle (6) 2 Villainous (7) 3 Arctic ice house (5) 5 Thorough search (7) 6 Colin ___, Oscarwinning British actor (5) 7 Fortified wine made in

the town of Jerez in Spain (6)

8 Impossible to disprove (11) 14 Sporting dismissal signal (3,4) of 15 Pretend (7) 16 Illicit romance (6) 17 Story written in verse (6) 19 Antidote put into a sick person’s blood (5) 21 Make a bid of (5)