DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. Supervision means

seeing too much? (9) 8. Make fun of what Adam

gave up for Eve? (3) 9. Clock's trial period? (7,4) 11. Badminton-type

service? (7) 12. Experience a bit of it as

terrible (5)

13. Remove weapons - or

limbs? (6)

15. Ask for unity, maybe,

but go away! (6)

17. Their function is to keep

the flames going (5) 18. Prescribe a soft sharp

tip (7) 20. Lower classes told what to

do? (5,6)

22. Listener in the area (3) 23. Players on the ball, so to

speak (5,4)

Down

2. Rival five, that is (3) 3. Speedy writer? (5) 4. Silenced by a joke? (6) 5. The one here let slip a

prickly plant (7)

6. Urge observation of newspaper announcement (5,6)

7. An inhabitable cellar used

for humiliation? (9)

10. Place likely to produce very

tight games? (6,5)

11. Wrote a sad composition

about fizzy drink (4,5) 14. Team in red had a home (7) 16. Unprofitable again in farm

building (6)

19. Clear undesirables out of

shop urgently (5)

21. Continuous spell of rapid

motion (3)