DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Large meal with soft

paste (6)

5 Composed by repetition,

say (5)

9 Cyril rewrote part of song

(5)

10 Casual break around soft

bone (7)

11 Pretty keen to imprison

rascal (4)

12 Camp seen prepared for

astronauts (8)

16 Even breaks breaking, and

continuing to do so? (5-6)

18 &DWWOH WKLHYHV· OHDGHUV surround the thoroughfare (8)

21 Spell out loud to unsettle (4)

23 Get involved with stone

feature (5,2)

24 Confuse Dad with the

French (5)

25 During Lent European

has banquet (5)

26 Went round in circles when

journalist passed away (6)

QUICK ACROSS

1 Practice session (4-2)

5 Seize illegally (5)

9 Angry (5)

10 Kerosene light (3,4)

11 Religious ceremony (4)

12 From the days of an

empire (8)

16 Fastening on a lasso to enable the rope to be tightened quickly (7,4)

18 Extend, stretch (8)

21 Having no hair (4)

23 Daytime theatrical

performance (7)

24 Defence to a criminal

charge (5)

25 Blue-green gem (5)

26 Capturing (6)

DOWN

2 Areas kept free for

tropical birds (9)

3 *HW IURQW RII WR ÀUPO\

mark (4)

4 An escaped pair to

perform vanishing act (13)

6 5XJE\ 8QLRQ IHOORZ·V not right making money in Delhi (5)

7 Silk fabric some sell,

utterly reversible (5)

8 The Spanish took food

to raise spirits (5)

13 Morse, perhaps,

back in the dock! (4)

14 Roughly move bloke

when given name (9)

15 Throw vegetable

over part of ship (4)

17 Woman to assist,

mostly, in French (5)

19 Join up in retinue (5)

20 Levy suggested for

small nails (5)

22 Placed clock face upside

down (4)

DOWN

2 Complete change

in opinion (5-4)

3 Military dining room (4)

4 Formal expression of

opinion, judgement (13)

6 +DLUGUHVVHU·V VKRS

or beauty parlour (5)

7 Rhythmic Cuban dance (5)

8 Orange-yellow pigment (5)

13 Horse race run

at Epsom (4)

14 Detachment,

quarantine (9)

15 Small winged insect (4)

17 Off the cuff (2-3)

19 Escape from (5)

20 Filthy (5)

22 Stain, blemish (4)