DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

1. I'm eating out with Charles I – that's mysterious! (9)

8. May changes her name (3) 9. News of how the Red Arrows fly (11)

11. Does pie get cooked in one instalment? (7) 12. 1, 11, 0, 1000 is a mathematical statement (5) 13. Change this for the right top (1-5)

15. Party on sea or land (6) 17. I do business – that's perfect! (5) 18. Nastier concoction of Greek wine (7)

20. Mail printer produces a textbook (5,6)

22. Some sympathetic article... (3)

23 . ... about the way notes fade

when unable to hear (5,4) Down

2. Religious woman starts the Canticle of Simeon (3)

3. Moira's new man (5)

4. What remains when the estate is divided up? (3,3)

5. Stylish silver ring from a city in Illinois (7)

6. Driving Al's minicab around the north to find evidence of flesh-eating (11)

7. A burning desire? (9) 10. Does Adam's doctor practise alternative medicine? (5,6) 11. Disentangle from a mangled Crete taxi (9)

14. Is concerned with the travels of Laertes (7)

16. The English-speaker has to leave without the band (6) 19. Brief to cut down trees (5) 21. Age of the older generation (3)

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