DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Cater in a lithe way? (6)
4 Start to eat light French
cake (6)
9 Producing sound by
breaking up coins (5)
10 Last but one doing bird
about to see jailer (7)
11 Maniac runs around east,
washed out (7) 12 Material model attached
to wimp (5)
13 Run off with material,
blue (11)
18 Fill to the brim, taking to
little dog (3-2)
20 Its root is stewed for
this dish (7)
22 Comfort inmate only (7)
23 Speed-setter to
summarise return (5) 24 Foes regrouping around East – loudly chase away (3,3)
25 Loud insect circling
tree (6) Downhaving
1 Walk with a swagger
cummerbund and a yellow top (6)
2 Nail dance game (7)
3 In practice one
deputises (5)
5 Car tour arranged for
custodian (7)
6 Some shank, leg or
joint (5)
7 Hear about promotion of capital city (6)
8 Where bulls and bears and cattle sold? (5,6)
14 Censure salesperson
at upper limit (7)
15 Observes mad
section (7)
16 Heaps horse riding equipment in ship (6)
17 Regularly find ancient city in sacred surroundings (6)
19 Loose change for writer to cope without work (5)
21 Throw out pleas for
flower part (5)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Standing (6)
4 Stage of an unborn baby (6)
9 Brown savoury sauce (5)
10 Bet win and place (4-3)
11 Hostile to (7)
12 Weird, uncanny (5)
13 Cold cooked meats,
collectively (11)
18 Create a commotion (3,2)
20 In column form (7)
22 Outline (7)
23 Bee’s defence (5)
24 Indoors (6)
25 Small hole for a lace (6)
Down
1 Popular music originating in
Jamaica (6)
2 Tutankhamun, eg (7)
3 Test-wear a garment (3,2)
5 Broad-bladed jungle knife (7)
6 Sculler (5)
7 Life-supporting gas (6)
8 Organise drastically
differently (11)
14 Parachute release (7)
15 Enmity (3-4)
16 Chinese system of exercise
and self-defence (3,3)
17 Sudden scare (6)
19 Grasping device (5)
21 Cap of black fur (5)