DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Serve as evidence,
watching cricket? (6)
4 Exchanging dinars
is exhausting (6)
8 Unusually clean old
weapon (5)
9 Sweet funny
bachelors (3,4)
10 Be environmentally
friendly, though futile (7)
11 Nothing is about in outer limits of Kilmarnock but a booth (5)
12 Closely integrated with
drunk fool, we hear (5-4)
17 Horse going round wide
tree (5)
19 Ridicule the French politician
having nothing on (7)
21 Penny lifted and
commended (7)
22 Model with lofty part
of leg (5)
23 Painter with bowl for
vegetable (6)
24 He follows one drink with
another (6)
QUICK ACROSS
1 Burrowing Australian
marsupial (6)
4 Small tower (6)
8 Clock-like device (5)
9 Billie ___, US jazz
singer (7)
10 Arrange again (7)
11 Painted circus fool (5)
12 Rash (3-6)
17 Supermarket
walkway (5)
19 Large edible flatfish (7)
21 Array of leaves (7)
22 Scout company (5)
23 Perforate (6)
24 Japanese entertainment
girl (6)
DOWN
1 Using maximum effort, gets everyone dismissed (3-3)
2 Beat City fellow touching
Circle Line? (7)
3 Scandinavian vegetable (5)
5 Poor Mike hurried round
dish (7)
6 Partly maim a gorgeous
adult insect (5)
7 Piles large bags around
tin-opener (6)
9 Emigrated as a result
of stirring Ed’s letter (9)
13 Creation of hereditary
units is to follow (7)
14 Hot regions, right in
talking points (7)
15 In favour of exercises
before runs, right? (6)
16 Big cat removing head
part of flower (6)
18 Part of south-east England
to flourish, say (5)
20 Marriage contest (5)
DOWN
1 Diluted (6)
2 Enormous (7)
3 Unpleasantly pungent (5)
5 Loosened (a corset) (7)
6 Cowboy horse-riding
show (5)
7 Annoying (6)
9 Curved metal for
an animal’s foot (9)
13 End of a foot digit (7)
14 Of questionable
character (7)
15 Boss (6)
16 Ideal land (6)
18 Cold dish of vegetables (5)
20 Metric petrol unit (5)