DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Shorten a kind of bridge ( 8)
6 Ashen, friend on top of
Eiger ( 4)
8 Lob map over with
self- assurance ( 6)
9 Note limits of country
residence ( 6)
10 Card game, thanks to motor club vehicle reversing ( 8) 13 Tokyo hasn’t held back
nautical cry ( 4)
14 Visiting NY landmark is
free? ( 2,7)
17 Short of energy, needing cold
metal ( 4)
18 Is set, say, for travel writer ( 8)
19 Drive round a brassy
sound ( 6)
21 Make secure by making
secure ( 6) 23 Flyers returning to
a distant place ( 4)
24 Bear leads hooligan back to former youth ( 5,3) Down
2 Harp on about
waif ( 6)
3 Twins as well, by the
sound of it ( 3)
4 Inn stocking fashionable vegetable ( 9)
5 Roman gown without
a warmth rating ( 3)
6 Polite word learner removed for rustics ( 9)
7 Los Angeles thug finds area of water ( 6)
11 Playfully skip to prepare food flavouring? ( 3,1,5)
12 Carefully kept convinced to step outside ( 9)
15 To warn in advance,
pointless? ( 3,3)
16 Mock one removed from Opus Dei organisation ( 6)
20 Smash success? ( 3)
22 Oddly silly when
secretive ( 3)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Raised path for crossing water
or marshland ( 8)
6 Area of mown grass ( 4)
8 Any non- acid ( 6)
9 Perplex ( 6)
10 Slaughter ( 8)
13 Deliberately avoid ( 4)
14 Candid, frank ( 9)
17 Happy, pleased ( 4)
18 Down- to- earth! ( 8)
19 Attractively strange or unusual ( 6)
21 Beset ( with parasites) ( 6)
23 Midge ( 4)
24 Container for taking home
surplus food ( 5,3)
Down
2 No- holds- barred ( 3- 3)
3 Resort with mineral spring
attraction ( 3)
4 Symbol of surrender ( 5,4)
5 Bark ( 3)
6 Round tray that turns to aid
in the serving of food ( 4,5)
7 Deliberate ( 6)
11 Seizure of power ( 4,5)
12 Becoming jaundiced ( 9)
15 Warning hooter ( 6)
16 Memoirs of a ___, Arthur
Golden book ( 6)
20 Chew the ___, ruminate ( 3)
22 Cook in oil ( 3)