DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Not complaining if son gets in the news without parking (7)
5 I leave WC vacant (2,3)
8 Girl held by male,
the lad (5)
9 Five in team touring
country (7)
10 One’s read the source
of dates (4)
11 As on the menu, a real
cat recipe (1,2,5)
13 Greet with pistol, weird
spirit in the house (11)
17 A mistral blows over
scaremonger (8)
19 Split fashion is
a non-starter (4)
21 Shakespearean king turning up in middle of visit to see Middle-Easterner (7)
22 Lovely thing slightly
injured, that is (5)
23 Corroded under silver
stone (5)
24 Whipped filling to create
a change (7)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Brutal, savage (7)
5 Inhabitant of Aladdin’s
lamp (5)
8 Respond to a stimulus (5)
9 Choicest (7)
10 Tract (4)
11 Ceases to exist (8)
13 Excessively brawny (6-5)
17 Device for securely
disposing of documents (8)
19 Be jealous of (4)
21 Cast a spell upon (7)
22 Eclipse, better (5)
23 Tall, spiky flower (5)
24 Setback in illness (7)
DOWN
1 Point to that woman’s father, a mountain guide (6)
2 Shakespearean character
to return greeting (7)
3 Charlie boy’s young
animal (4)
4 Where one form of transport gives way to another (5,8)
5 Large ditches disrupt
N Chester (8)
6 Ship entering squall
in error (5)
7 Moderate fit
of ill-humour (6)
12 Headlong rush when
steep dam collapses (8)
14 One doubts it’s infected
round top of calf (7)
15 Posh boy and girl (2-2-2)
16 Stick advertisement
in this place (6)
18 Vessel entering
Zambia or Tanzania (5)
20 Look over in Tuscany (4)
DOWN
1 Relating to words (6)
2 French vineyard estate
round a castle (7)
3 Porridge cereal (4)
4 Device that warms a
room (7,6)
5 Discard (3,3,2)
6 Woodland sprite (5)
7 Join the forces (6)
12 Result of air pollution (4,4)
14 Unceasing (3-4)
15 Additionally (2,4)
16 Past (6)
18 Briefly summarise (5)
20 Exhausting labour (4)