Double crossword
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.