DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES
Across
1 Admire ornate sceptre (7)
5 Phone program to get the
French fruit (5)
8 Force wife to take it
easy (5)
9 Museum finally fitted
with slats (7)
10 Value of speed (4)
11 Perfect, without a hint of
rain (8) 13 Posh people in Corsica, arty
possibly (11)
17 Plane left one in rear in
disarray (8)
19 Learner encountered outside
will lose form (4)
21 Meat product cold as far as
one can see? Not entirely (7)
22 Oven-cooked, medium
poison (5)
23 Ringleader in sudden pain
causes minor accident (5) 24 Family doctor at home of key person in organisation (7) Down
1 Prize when part of the cabinet retired (6)
2 Lets her arrange
the cover (7)
3 Warms up, removing starter, then dines (4)
4 Publication to help one be OK from mobile? (9,4)
5 Duly tear round with grounds for divorce (8)
6 Each year, Rose loses nothing – analyse that (5)
7 Most senior colonel
destined to hide (6)
12 Aiming for painkiller with force (8)
14 Tidy prop put in
vessel (5,2)
15 Daft hat for reckless
person (6)
16 This tame nuthatch circles pollen sac (6)
18 Curio jar contains
alcoholic drink (5)
20 Still curtailed
sporting fixture (4)
QUICK CLUES
Across
1 Provisional (7)
5 First public performance (5)
8 Being untruthful (5)
9 Please carry on (2,5)
10 Pesters (4)
11 Choosing abstinence from
alcohol (8)
13 Believer of a divine evolution
of the universe (11)
17 Get rid of (embarrassment)
with a jest (5,3)
19 Handy, adroit (4)
21 Work out (7)
22 Unleavened bread used for
kebabs (5) 23 Daunt (5)
24 Rotten, putrid (7)
Down
1 Far from the coast (6)
2 Cause (7)
3 Fit of anger (4)
4 Region around a moving
electric charge (8,5)
5 Planning (8)
6 Sheep’s cry (5)
7 In an orderly way (6)
12 Single man (8)
14 In a pleasant, gentle way (7)
15 Rosy, ruddy (6)
16 Filament, thread (6)
18 Knocked over (5)
20 Heroic work (4)