DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Join forces with side that

has been promoted (4,2)

5 Start viewing smoke round

the bend (5)

9 Starts a show with zero

writing implements? (5)

10 Move heavily to avoid a rush (7)

11 Succeed in stopping punt (4)

12 Cunning swimmer conceals

one object (8) 16 Create new action

as scientist (5,6)

18 Males try cooking,

appearing good at it? (8)

21 Street is wide with

no beginning (4)

23 Species of trout’s

colourful appearance (7)

24 A gambling device at

university? I’m off! (5)

25 Belief taken either

way (5) 26 Referee almost destroyed jacket (6)

Down

2 Tasks and duties surrounding late queen (9)

3 Doctor’s

second plant (4)

4 Attractive climber moving out of law profession (7,6)

6 Pushed and crowded without leader (5)

7 Regards struggle with cardinals (5)

8 Rips off back-row pieces (5)

13 Amphibian went all over Across the place (4) 1 Beginning stage

14 In rodeo, of anything (6) wild eleven 5 Supplementary (5) contained 9 Secret hoard (5) rust (4,5) 10 Break up, stop (7)

15 Come to 11 Banquet (4)

funeral party (4) 12 Impassioned plea (8)

17 Smell of German 16 Bank manager, eg (11)

flower, you say? (5) 18 Lotion for tanned skin (8) 19 Humble airhead 21 Thought (4)

on foot (5) 23 Film star’s followers (3,4) 20 Anxious future, 24 Substance such as

perhaps (5) platinum or tin (5)

22 Relief from sea 25 Very coldly (5)

serpents (4) 26 Entertain (with) (6)

QUICK CLUES

Down

2 Behave stupidly (4,5)

3 Vibrating strip in a clarinet (4)

4 First, second or third,

for example (7,6)

6 Funeral song (5)

7 Person who lives abroad (5)

8 Rogue (5)

13 Skating area (4)

14 Based on hearsay (9)

15 Stare suggestively (4)

17 Short-tailed marten native to

Siberia and Japan (5)

19 Old French coin (5)

20 Common spreadsheet

program (5)

22 Self-satisfied (4)