DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

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Across

1 A pile of snow floating away? (6)

5 Employers are those who take

advantage (5)

9 Passageway entering arena

is leaking (5)

10 A hundred demand applause (7)

11 Quaint sound of bird cut short (4)

12 Minor event left out of

photographic screening (8) 16 Person spotting outlets

can’t go wrong (6,5)

18 Hero-worshipper I swindle

afterwards (8)

21 Some scribe tackles

second letter (4)

23 Cold sound around

lunchtime? Go away! (7)

24 Call up first lady to accept

the go-ahead (5)

25 March round for a spell (5) 26 Compare each question using all three exams for starters (6) Down

2 Road speed ludicrous, which is criminal (9)

3 Head off cutting remark to unknown goat (4)

4 Traditional dish, strangely, I loathed, not he (4-2-3-4)

6 In these, one should pay less for beer on board (5)

7 One-horn

creation! (5)

8 Eat a bit of ricotta,

steadily (5)

13 Cut out wretched

section (4)

14 Suitable residence for one who wants to be near a bank? (9)

15 Odd fate of dairy

product (4)

17 More underdone, though less common (5)

19 Abandon a trench (5)

Failure to interpret roles (5) Rod, say, is an admirer (4)

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22

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Staffed (6)

5 Income before

tax (5)

9 More than

sufficient (5)

10 Brown plant washed up on the beach (7)

11 Place of

confinement (4)

12 Couch with a liquid-filled mattress (5-3)

16 Keep confined (11) 18 Be dazed or

concussed (3,5)

21 Move

(as a river) (4)

23 Boiled (7)

24 Chocolate

powder (5)

25 Distance between rails on a railway track (5)

26 Cut of beef popular

in the US (3-3) Down

2 Device (9)

3 Requisite (4)

4 Courier (8,5)

6 Oarsman (5)

7 Component part

of an act (5)

8 Stringed musical

instrument (5)

13 Receive a salary

of (4)

14 Phrase shouted while entering combat (6,3)

15 Adult male deer (4)

17 Perspiration (5)

19 Additional (5)

20 Informal

language (5)

22 Strike-breaker (4)