DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

1 Animal trapped in Blenheim

Palace (6)

5 New external type of stable

sound (5)

9 Which unchallenged part

is a premonition? (5)

10 Soothe one of five grabbing summer in France (7)

11 Hold on to castle tower (4) 12 Rip seeds apart – scatter

over a wide area (8)

16 Lightly touched flower and

was highly amused (7,4)

18 I’d mean to sort out

control (8)

21 College head remains

with the money (4)

23 Stencil produced for

the customers (7)

24 Joint status is a non-starter

with the French (5)

25

Turn taps with energy and create a flood (5)

26 Put into cipher,

including poem (6) Down

2 Trait of German writer, potential miser (9)

Painful, but excellent without exercise (4) Spilling into quarts, iced tea, it’s not generally liked (8,5) English entertained by pleasant relative (5)

Rushes to get plants (5)

Struggle to breathe when fuel envelops home (5) Insect-to-be, it may be sold back (4)

14 Moved quickly, fired, and carried off the spoils (9)

15 Similar to boundless

counterfeiting (4)

17 Team leader here

arranged number (5)

19 Meadow flower round mouth of a bullock? (5)

20 Ham-fisted? It holds

writer back (5)

22 Powder discovered

in dental cavities (4)

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6

7

8

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QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Permeable by fluids (6)

5 Expend (3,2)

9 Droll (5)

10 Usually (2,1,4)

11 Definite split (4)

12 Dither (8)

16 Lacking detail (3-8)

18 Have a chat (8)

21 One twelfth of

a foot (4)

23 Forgive or overlook

(an offence) (7)

24 Nimble (5)

25 Grating noise (5)

26 Swift (6)

Down

2 Far from the city

centre (3-2-4)

3 Cameo gemstone (4)

4 Audacity (13)

6 Walk swaggeringly (5)

7 Not illuminated (5)

8 Conscious,

informed (5)

13 Purple flower (4)

14 Made hostile (9)

15 Tiny landmass (4)

17 Surface gloss (5)

19 Stench (5)

20 Colourless alcoholic

drink (5)

22 Besides, otherwise (4)