DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Food for big important

person? (6)

5 Like writer’s tree (5)

9 Rubber? Some normality

restored! (5)

10 Lara dug away bit by bit (7)

11 Highland dance sounds

authentic (4)

12 Half-a-dozen at home in large

town’s neighbourhood (8)

16

Leg thus shot – badly injured -very inconsiderate (11)

18 Towers where Lee’s pets

abandoned (8)

21 Bus on rails from shop,

returning (4)

23 Neat boy could become a blade (7)

Exercise which will bore? (5) Has to change promises (5) Aid projection (6) 24 25 26

Down

2 Lucky thing downtrodden by nag? (9)

3 English, say, is complicated, or simple (4)

4 Less tethering

around dog (7,6)

6 Not fully licensed, a North American saloon (5)

Precise law of old? (5)

8 It’s severe at the

rear (5)

13 Medicine unopened

– complaints appear (4)

14 Being employed below stairs in

Venice, sir, is dreadful (2,7)

15 Clever remark on Across first letters of quote 1 Word for used in pun (4) expressing the

17 Extract metal from time (6) fish (5) 5 Affray (5)

From Haiti, 9 Impetuous a ransomed speed (5) half-crown? (5) 10 Tall stone

20 Hundred in monument (7) desperate hope 11 Bung (4) for a time (5) 12 Menacing (8)

22 Revered person 16 Invisible without lazy, we hear (4) magnification (11)

18 Ancient Egyptian

monuments (8)

7

19

QUICK CLUES

26

21 Pal (4) 7 Discarded

23 Chance your materials (5)

arm (4,1,2) 8 Contour (5)

24 Plural of that (5) 13 Element,

25 Carved symbol Fe (4)

decoration (5) 14 Femur (5,4)

26 Istanbul’s 15 Baby’s carriage (4)

country (6) 17 Orange fossil Down resin (5)

2 Fancy-dress 19 Long (for) (5)

purveyor (9) 20 Ring or

3 Comply (4) stadium (5)

4 Be entirely 22 Film’s main

familiar with (4,6,3) actress (4)

6 Moves like a

ball (5)