Double crossword

Today’s grid

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

1. They might give

people new

heart! (11)

9. It was in form

when young (7)

10. Some of what he

irons belongs to

them (5)

11. This is plural (5)

12. Upset a caterer

in a domestic

row (7)

13. Tries to put it in

writing? (6)

15. He doesn’t go for

a horse that will

finish (6)

18. Put into

liquidation? (7)

20. A step in making

wine? (5)

22. A girl with good

ones may attract a lot of

them! (5)

23. Hide from the real chaos (7)

24. Happy manufacturers enjoy

themselves? (11)

Down

2. Verbal criticism of a show (5)

3. In which youngsters blossom

forth? (7)

4. Pete gets round it being small

(6)

5. Moving melody about a good

man (5)

6. They knock inside for

treatment (7)

7. Are they given by singers

accused of being off-key?

(4,7)

8. Have they no sense of duty?

(4,7)

14. Nobody in particular (7)

16. Two small birds make one (7)

17. Blamed for an uproar (6)

19. One who gets up part of the

stairs? (5)

21. Hesitation about the stuff

used in theatres (5)

QUICK CLUES:

Across

1. Besides (11)

9. Bivalve mollusc (7)

10. Urchin (5)

11. Fire-raising (5)

12. Canadian province (7)

13. Prodigal (6)

15. Dormant (6)

18. Excess (7)

20. A characteristic (5)

22. Live (5)

23. Avoidance (7)

24. Enterprise (11)

Down

2. Russian mountains (5)

3. Special gifts (7)

4. Use (6)

5. Power (5)

6. Regret (7)

7. Firmly fixed (11)

8. Incapable (11)

14. Rendering (7)

16. Relapse (3-4)

17. Declare (6)

19. Supple (5)

21. Foreign (5)

Yesterday’s answers

DOUBLE CROSSWORD:

Cryptic: Across: 1 Mainstay; 5 Iris; 9

Tang; 10 Flounder; 11 Novel; 12 Neptune;

13 Weather-beaten; 18 Lameness; 19

Mite; 20 Conceal; 21 Moral; 22 Turn; 23

Protests.Down: 2 A la mode; 3 Neglect;

4 All-in wrestler; 6 Redoubt; 7 Surgeon;

8 Purple; 13 Wild-cat; 14 Almoner; 15

Hinder; 16 Arm-hole; 17 Extract.

Quick: Across: 1 Timorous; 5 Used; 9

Shut; 10 Distress; 11 Flood; 12 Trickle;

13 Pronouncement; 18 Restrain; 19

Nigh; 20 Stetson; 21 Siren; 22 Leer; 23

Alienate.Down: 2 Inhaler; 3 Outworn;

4 Unintentional; 6 Speckle; 7 Descent; 8

Strife; 13 Perusal; 14 Obscene; 15 Onrush;

16 Mention; 17 Neglect.