Double Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Author rewriting lower left (6)

4 Left harnesses outside for bumpkins (6)

9 Goes out with festive food (5)

10 Female insect given name of prohibited alcohol (7)

11 Get a herb with hidden energy (7)

12 Arranged to fight (3,2)

13 Concede ales drunk in teenage years! (11)

18 Snake counter? (5)

20 Bits of film in feet, internally, showing solar phenomenon? (7)

22 Least stuffy sort of satire I include (7)

23 Liquid over iron weapon (5)

24 Indian snack from a

Greek island first (6)

25 One’s inclined to want a perfume (6)

DOWN

1 Poor grades gained in exam that’s a severe test (6)

2 Saw cheat torn between wife and daughter (7)

3 Yarn left on offshore land (5)

5 Supervise old poetry at conclusion of ode (7)

6 Vote in some of the Cambridge lecturers (5)

7 Device that detects dreadful snores! (6)

8 Agrees about awful mess in tax evaluations (11)

14 Food stores in cars, we hear (7)

15 Policeman fronts epic turn in the spinney (7)

16 Sarah's prepared to attack repeatedly (6)

17 Run away from a lot of sand (6)

19 Wheat you hear inside cylinder (5)

21 Enjoys hawk film that follows large one (5)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 Act as mediator (4,2)

4 Space, universe (6) 9 Entertain (5)

10 Authorise (7)

11 Person coming to live in a new land (7)

12 Narrow steep-sided valley (5)

13 Terrifying (11)

18 Stoneworker (5) 20 Round particle (7)

22 Light that can be carried (7)

23 Large group of wives (5)

24 ___ East, Egypt’s region (6)

25 King Arthur’s wizard (6)

DOWN

1 Scant (6)

2 Notional line separating the north and south hemispheres (7)

3 Just right (5)

5 Eight-sided figure (7)

6 Internal combustion engine (5)

7 Biased, distorted (6)

8 Member of MI5 (6,5)

14 Ostentatiously refined (7)

15 On neither side (7)

16 Insignia (6)

17 Preacher’s text (6)

19 Church of England’s ecclesiastical council (5)

21 Shade of yellow (5)