DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Start out about
100 pamphlets (6)
4 Investigates publicity
awards (6)
9 Article you and I dread (3)
10 Present loan
beforehand (2,7)
11 Lift up head of elk,
dead (5)
12 Genuine acceptance of
three-second hearing (7)
14 Ignore my lot rearranging
jargon (11)
17 Flower could be
a big one (7)
18 Drive away the Spanish
salesman first (5)
20 Fancy papering new
French city? (9)
22 Neither part of the
minority (3)
23 Practice needs teetotal series of performances (3,3)
24 Listen, it’s not shallow here
– that you can rely on! (6)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Frolic (6)
4 Doggedly follow (6)
9 Gases in the
atmosphere (3)
10 Show host (9)
11 Grinding back tooth (5)
12 Find another home for (7)
14 Begin to let in water (6,1,4)
17 Supposed (7)
18 Bronze position
in a competition (5)
20 Spots of drizzle (9)
22 Every part (of) (3)
23 Flimsily constructed,
badly made (6)
24 Rise (6)
DOWN
1 Made fun of model
then let up (6)
2 Cub pack leader
on a stormy lake (5)
3 Cooked ribs meant
for clan member (9)
5 Accelerate in hire
vehicle (3)
6 Financial system out
of kilter? (7)
7 Bomb’s outer casing (5)
8 Andrew for Scotland,
playing nation’s part! (6,5)
13 Body’s ability to endure
cereal not processed (9)
15 Before time, holding keys
with much enthusiasm (7)
16 Flowery US state seen
shortly (6)
17 One quietly entering part of garden, one with two legs (5)
19 Loose change for writer to
cope without operation (5)
21 Impecunious, in part due
to this? (inits) (3)
DOWN
1 Muggy, close (6)
2 Caused by a bug (5)
3 Writing an account of (9)
5 Employ (3)
6 Small orange (7)
7 Mysterious (5)
8 Apartheid (11)
13 Bad breath (9)
15 Conditional clause (7)
16 Rotten (egg) (6)
17 Paintbrush cleaner,
for short (5)
19 Likeness, mental
picture (5)
21 Carried out (an action) (3)