DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC ACROSS
1 Ranted madly, being
passionate (6)
5 Sailor took poem home (5)
9 Old coin put away
in pipe (5)
10 Duck one links, perhaps,
with waterproofed cloth (7)
11 Hungry feeling when kitchen vessel beginning to glow (4)
12 Some time in snowstorm
in the present (8)
16 Saint George’s unexpected
detachment (11)
18 Listeners’ protection needs same ruff, only different (8)
21 Tolerates noise from river
below (4)
23 Animal, European, in more colourful surroundings (3,4)
24 A profit once more (5)
25 Use a pole to find
chamber (5)
26 One having a drink
or a late meal (6)
DOWN
2 Storyteller to recount
about past artist (9)
3 Warms up missing starter
and devours (4)
4 In-depth transport costs
for building roads (13)
6 Humiliated, but not fully, then established headquarters (5)
7 Regularly idle filthy
goddess (5)
8 Some had option
to espouse (5)
13 Poker stake collected
by taxman, tenner (4)
14 A period to encounter
U-turn (5-4)
15 German lady orders a fur (4)
17 Cutting is onerous with
head chopped off (5)
19 A turbulent lake for
Cub pack leader (5)
20 Way trainee becomes
a poser (5)
22 Man-eater has
to improvise (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
1 Go to sleep, doze
briefly (3,3)
5 Find disgusting (5)
9 Metric liquid
measurement (5)
10 Plait (7)
11 Henhouse (4)
12 Place where boats are
built (8)
16 Captivatingly attractive
woman (11)
18 Laboratory vessel (4,4)
21 Kitchen worker (4)
23 Try (4,1,2)
24 Variety of unleavened
bread (5)
25 Towelling material (5)
26 In a straight line (6)
DOWN
2 Money spent (9)
3 Undo (4)
4 Relations, kin (5,3,5)
6 Obscure or secluded
road (5)
7 Freeholder (5)
8 ___ Beauty, Anna
Sewell novel (5)
13 Cat’s sound of
contentment (4)
14 Appreciative of beauty (9)
15 Small voucher (4)
17 Edible internal organs
of an animal (5)
19 Keep out of the way of (5)
20 Plural of his or her (5)
22 Sharp device on
a cowboy’s boot (4)