Double crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
6. Pray the change
will do you
good! (7)
7. Plant that means
a great deal to
us (5)
9. Photograph - by
which a crook is
identified? (5)
10. Is it after five or
later he calls?
(7)
12. Those who enter
the services
(6-5)
14. The highest
bidder doesn’t
leave anything
behind (5,3,3)
18. Mends broken
rapiers (7)
19. Gets close to a
section of marine
arsenal (5)
21. Prepared to fight
(3-2)
22. Comment on what you see?
(7)
Down
1. May be said twice for
comfort, but not here (5)
2. Slit at the front (6)
3. Copy used in newspapers
(3)
4. A dotty thing to play with!
(6)
5. Funny moods? (7)
8. A shade less intense (7)
11. One may hear it from a
Socialist or a Conservative
(7)
13. He hangs on to the wall
(7)
15. Create disorder in a card-
game (6)
16. A cook may use a tin one
(6)
17. Travelled from Dover (5)
20. Go back - tidily? (3)
QUICK CLUES:
Across
6. Advent (7)
7. Out of bed (5)
9. Precipitous (5)
10. Slander (7)
12. Incitement (11)
14. Repetition (11)
18. Stealthy (7)
19. Slumber (5)
21. Bore (5)
22. Idiotic (7)
Down
1. Beast (5)
2. Turn aside (6)
3. Merry (3)
4. Face (6)
5. Errand (7)
8. Segregate (7)
11. Make better (7)
13. Necessitate (7)
15. Gossip (6)
16. Rectangular (6)
17. Existence (5)
20. Employment (3)
Yesterday’s answers
DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 1 Statistics; 7 Emend;
8 Friends; 10 Overture; 11 Peal; 13
Lesson; 15 Picnic; 17 Corn; 18 Cannibal;
21 Species; 22 Greta; 23 Chess-match.
Down: 1 Sieve; 2 Addition; 3 Infirm; 4
Twig; 5 Concern; 6 Recollects; 9 Salt-
cellar; 12 Midnight; 14 Screech; 16
Ransom; 19 Beech; 20 Hits.
Quick: Across: 1 Particular; 7 Expel;
8 Valiant; 10 Delegate; 11 Eden; 13
Terror; 15 Stanza; 17 Oust; 18 Well-to-
do; 21 Galilee; 22 Adorn; 23 Protracted.
Down: 1 Pupil; 2 Religion; 3 Invite;
4 Ugly; 5 Abandon; 6 Headstrong; 9
Tantamount; 12 Stalwart; 14 Rustler; 16
Geneva; 19 Ovoid; 20 Glut.