Double crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
1. Preposition used
in any amount of
sentences (4)
3. Dislike a test
said to be
complicated (8)
9. A case for
travelling light
(7)
10. Vessel carrying
fuel from Loire
(5)
11. Unable to
say why you
can’t solve a
crossword?
(4,3,5)
13. Choice adoption
societies give
you (6)
15. Much time and
trouble is taken
in its drafting (6)
17. Man with some
degree of skills?
(6,2,4)
20. Perplexed, as the Navy often
is (2,3)
21. A race between two Poles
and an Arab (7)
22. Line of tolerance? (8)
23. Do carpenters worry about
such work? (4)
Down
1. Not a pretty sight on the face
of things (4,4)
2. Grasping secret societies in
China? (5)
4. Give a slight cut? (6)
5. A way to make compete
provisions (12)
6. A boy in error becomes a
Moslem warrior (7)
7. Clearly it includes him! (4)
8. Not how other people may
picture you? (4-8)
12. Fish I catch in a basket (8)
14. Travelling goods will be in it
(7)
16. Made sure your slip wasn’t
showing? (6)
18. Come again about the dog
(5)
19. Sphere of the dance? (4)
QUICK CLUES:
Across
1. Ceremony (4)
3. Speculators (8)
9. Non-professional (7)
10. Kind of parrot (5)
11. Hymn (4,2,6)
13. Niche (6)
15. American inventor (6)
17. Sea-bird (6-6)
20. Military student (5)
21. Bandits (7)
22. Enrolled (8)
23. Drop (4)
Down
1. Give confidence to (8)
2. Coach (5)
4. Sudden (6)
5. Artillery attacks (12)
6. Pleas (7)
7. Stitched (4)
8. Shows (12)
12. Enveloped (8)
14. Stronghold (7)
16. Past (6)
18. Arrive at (5)
19. Pain (4)
Yesterday’s answers
DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 6 Therapy; 7 Lotus; 9
Print; 10 Visitor; 12 Church-goers; 14
Takes the lot; 18 Repairs; 19 Nears; 21
Set-to; 22 Observe.Down: 1 There; 2
Trench; 3 Ape; 4 Domino; 5 Humours;
8 Lighter; 11 Oratory; 13 Paperer; 15
Ecarte; 16 Opener; 17 Drove; 20 Ebb.
Quick: Across: 6 Arrival; 7 Astir; 9
Steep; 10 Asperse; 12 Stimulation;
14 Reiteration; 18 Furtive; 19 Sleep;
21 Drill; 22 Asinine.Down: 1 Brute;
2 Divert; 3 Gay; 4 Aspect; 5 Mission;
8 Isolate; 11 Improve; 13 Require; 15
Tattle; 16 Oblong; 17 Being; 20 Use.