DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Fix the rascal with a drink (6) 4 Recurring tea dance (3-3) 8 Drying-out advert to regularly kiss (5) 9 Seaside disaster brings complaint (7)
10 Sticks the notices round this place (7)
11 Has to change promises (5) 12 Dust Kelvin, say, used in potentially explosive situation (6,3) 17 Almost stop attempt to gain access (5) 19 Notices odd bit (7) 21 Cancel Cinders production (7) 22 Assign a tax retrospectively (5) 23 Pin end of cloak in large drain (6) 24 Cheat using sculptor’s tool (6) Down
1 Delhi resident brought back to help in tavern (6) 2 Mend or settle a quarrel (5,2) 3 Gold light ahead of Egyptian city (5) 5 Support for prayer is equipped with cuff (7) 6 Church painting and map (5) 7 Reluctant to find a piece of poetry (6) 9 Handed out bananas, despised holding end of skin (9)
13 Team after method to find edge of road (7)
14 Sell rig around metal screens (7) 15 Jewels and fruit on left (6)
16 At home, yet heard to drive home (6) 18 Arrange a test – makes sense (5) 20 Train or part of a train (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Pass on a disease (6)
4 Skills (6)
8 Small colourful garden flower (5) 9 Person sent away from danger (7) 10 Sound of knocking (3-1-3) 11 Female equivalent of ‘sir’ in letter-writing (5) 12 Breakfast table vessel? (6,3) 17 Kick against authority (5)
19 Put to death by carrying out a lawful sentence (7) 21 Strictly (7)
22 Pub spirits dispenser (5) 23 Fabric awning (6)
24 Back down, go back (on) (6)