Double Crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Carelessly patching
evening hat (8)
6 Family insignia displays
weaponry (4) 8 Sets forth for
America? (6) 9 First payment on the rent
will satisfy (6)
10 Loss of position when depressed before autumn (8)
13 Hurry to see small
missile (4)
14 Run my bath another way? It’s probably untrue (5,4)
17 Very green, not starting
to become pink (4)
18 They last out being
surreptitious (8)
19 Preserve lotion on
extremes of eardrum (6) 21 Cold place for larynx, but
not very old (6) 23 Horse’s gait needing
time to go off (4) 24 Be jealous, be sort of
rugged (8)
DOWN
2 Is torn about programmes’ musical starts (6)
3 Shack closed, not
opening (3)
4 Actors absent on Sunday with those shipwrecked (9)
5 Dad’s kind of music? (3) 6 Locate and destroy,
based on hearsay (9)
7 One hoarding last of lucre makes game bid (6)
11 Point made another
way (5-4)
12 Plodding to wood circle,
not right (9)
15 Bird in peaceful maritime
environment (6)
16 We reversed, leaving
the wrong crowd (6)
20 Crowd around some
kangaroos (3)
22 Bird taken in by
lemurs (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Without pressure (8) 6 Pass the tongue
over (4) 8 Exact (4,2) 9 Clear (of charges) (6) 10 Landing strip (8) 13 In a slothful
manner (4) 14 Opposed to accepted
belief (9)
17 Smile radiantly (4)
18 Ruined (stockings) (8) 19 Dish of nuts, cereals
and fruit (6) 21 Summon (6) 23 Accustom to solid
food (4)
24 Tendon (8)
DOWN
2 Mealtime clothes
protector (6)
3 No longer in the
game (3)
4 Predatory
sea-creature (6,3)
5 Genetic material
(inits) (3)
6 Convert (assets) into
cash (9)
7 Nippy, cold (6)
11 Member of a secret
society (9)
12 Wasting away (9)
15 Show unwillingness (6) 16 Consider (6)
20 Speak ___ of, criticise (3) Get-up-and-go (3)
answers tomorrow