DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Ranted madly, being

passionate (6)

5 Sailor took poem home (5)

9 Old coin put away in pipe (5)

10 Duck one links, perhaps, with

waterproofed cloth (7)

11 Hungry feeling when kitchen

vessel beginning to glow (4)

12 Some time in snowstorm

in the present (8) 16 Saint George’s unexpected

detachment (11)

18 Listeners’ protection needs

same ruff, only different (8)

21 Tolerates noise from

river below (4)

23 Animal, European, in more colourful surroundings (3,4)

24 A profit once more (5)

25 Use a pole to find

chamber (5) 26 One having a drink or a late meal (6)

Down

2 Storyteller to recount about past artist (9)

Warms up missing starter and devours (4)

In-depth transport costs for building roads (13)

Humiliated, but not fully, then established headquarters (5)

Regularly idle filthy goddess (5)

Some had option to espouse (5)

Poker stake collected by taxman, tenner (4) Across

14 A period to 1 Go to sleep, doze briefly (3,3) encounter 5 Find disgusting (5)

U-turn (5-4) 9 Metric liquid

15 German lady measurement (5)

orders a fur (4) 10 Plait (7)

17 Cutting is 11 Henhouse (4) onerous with head 12 Place where boats are built (8) chopped off (5) 16 Captivatingly attractive

19 A turbulent woman (11) lake for Cub 18 Laboratory vessel (4,4) pack leader (5) 21 Kitchen worker (4)

20 Way trainee 23 Try (4,1,2)

becomes a poser (5) 24 Variety of unleavened bread (5) 22 Man-eater has to 25 Towelling material (5)

improvise (4) 26 In a straight line (6)

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QUICK CLUES

Down

2 Money spent (9)

3 Undo (4)

4 Relations, kin (5,3,5)

6 Obscure or secluded road (5)

7 Freeholder (5)

8 ___ Beauty, Anna Sewell

novel (5)

13 Cat’s sound of contentment (4)

14 Appreciative of beauty (9)

15 Small voucher (4)

17 Edible internal organs of an animal (5)

Keep out of the way of (5) Plural of his or her (5)

Sharp device on a cowboy’s boot (4) 19 20 22