DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Current company on road

to agreement (6)

5 Daring display to astonish

town (5)

9 Sound system not starting

will irritate (5)

10 Reserves fuel in layer below (7)

11 Hot spot in Provence (4)

12 Alongside note, crimson faded (8) 16 Aggressive teller being

difficult (11)

18 Official notification that

the gun is loaded (8)

21 Enclosures for writers (4)

23 Withdraw from contest

with slight injury (7)

24 Tune I arranged to bring

people together (5)

25 Look at pair involved in

shopping trip (5) 26 Plan putting GIs

up in den (6)

Down

2 Fish caught on, eg reel perhaps (6,3) Stone creature outside

New York (4)

Made out to be famous (13) Experience the dissolution of state (5)

One caught in part of church, being inexperienced (5)

Put restriction on nobleman (5)

In this position, the woman’s English (4) Providing a coat on plaster (9)

15 Depressed Oxbridge

sportsman? (4)

17 Headless hound,

a useful thing (5)

19 Take the lid off a

French hat (5)

20 Landlord’s beginning to reduce rent (5)

22 Realise sometimes umbrellas sell singly, initially (4)

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QUICK CLUES

Across

1 ___ con carne,

spiced dish (6)

5 Wager money (5)

9 Lift up from above (5)

10 Sacred, hallowed (7)

11 Metal corrosion (4)

12 Perfect place (8)

16 Compassionate (11)

18 Expecting a baby (8)

21 Surety money (4)

23 Rice-based dish (7)

24 Extraterrestrial (5)

25 Domineering (5)

26 Nun’s title (6)

Down

2 Coiffure (9)

3 Disinclined (4)

4 Done in the blink

of an eye (13)

6 Slightly tinted (5)

7 Leg parts with ‘caps’ (5)

8 Land along the edge

of the sea (5)

13 Acme (4)

14 Simulated (9)

15 Distance between wing tips (4)

17 Window shade (5)

19 Large African mammal (5)

20 Offensive, disgusting (5)

22 God of war in

Roman mythology (4)