DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Festival could be a wild one (6)

5 Note the thin wood (5)

9 Where H and C are available? (2,3)

10 Almost dispose of perch, eg,

being mean (7)

11 Generated daily foodstuff,

we hear (4)

12 Motorway tension suffered

by teacher (8)

16 Link I severed with state (11) 18 Country club rep

I upset (8)

21 Applaud at start of

closing circuit (4)

23 Dull being married to

a foreign national (7)

24 For example, tell tale

about vassal (5)

25 During fiercest or mildest

outburst (5)

26 Hasty movement round

top of cruising boats (6)

Down

2 Heading for trouble – like croutons? (2,3,4)

3 Clasps part of

snakes (4)

4 Automatically rebuilt vilest city inn (13)

6 Boy of Cairo just odd, to a great extent (2,3)

7 Snoops in casinos,

essentially (5)

8 Fail with epicurian starter and dessert (5)

13 It’s hard work

to the Italian (4)

14 Enthusiastic bulletin circulated around the east (9)

15 Stuck-up Across

1 Shambles, debacle (6) person once 5 Moulin ___, Parisian a cobbler (4) nightclub (5)

17 Make pile after 9 Gin ___, card game (5) salesman’s initial 10 Of an alliance (7) patter (5) 11 Trudge through water (4) 19 Take delight 12 Without let-up (8) in once posh 16 Intimacy (11) officer (5) 18 Extra fabric cover

for a tent (8)

20 Some foundered

21 A great deal (4) below (5) 23 Encroach (upon) (7)

22 Political group is 24 Fine porcelain (5) bold, once seen 25 Goblin-like creature (5) regularly (4) 26 Soundness of mind (6)

QUICK CLUES

Down

2 Directness (9)

3 Meat-substitute bean (4)

4 Rudeness,

unpleasantness (13)

6 Musical drama (5)

7 Mince, shred (5)

8 Derren ___,

TV illusionist (5)

13 Farm building (4)

14 Skin painter (9)

15 Lofty (4)

17 Normal (5)

19 Madagascan primate (5)

20 Rinse, wash out (5)

22 Look from one side

to the other (4)