DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

1 Medical sign, start of mumps, after my top’s removed (7)

5 Cherub sang elegant

piece (5)

8 Insect – woman doesn’t

want one (5)

9 Loosening workings

of tiny gun (7)

10 Song and dance

to perform (2-2)

11 Interrupted ringing sound

with awful noise (6,2)

13 In contrast, a complicated

deal (11)

17 Boy offered port has

to lean forward (4,4)

19 Learner encountered

outside will lose form (4) 21 One serial exported from

Haifa (7)

22 Find out there’s a slant

round river (5)

23 Stealing article by

Financial Times (5)

24 Soldier given

a big plant (7)

ACROSS

1 Deadly poison (7)

5 Warehouse (5)

8 Ballroom dance (5)

9 Cloudiness (7)

10 Leaping pond-dweller (4) 11 Expression

of gratitude (5,3)

13 Control that makes a car

move backwards (7,4)

17 Signal given after an air

raid (3-5)

19 Curds and ___,

Miss Muffet’s food (4)

21 Savings (4,3)

22 Brief film role (5)

23 Bird’s perch (5)

24 Substance left

(after a process) (7)

DOWN

1 Greet small turtles?

How odd (6)

2 Person making shapes

to slowly decay (7)

3 Finally just small and

cute (4)

4 Correcting gourmet

in what is tasty (5-8)

5 Gold given to friend to

convert from manual (8)

6 What the miller will do

is hard work (5)

7 Story, finish first stage (6) 12 Naive person found

not guilty (8)

14 Run to a peer in trouble (7) 15 Player is to bow out

(wicket taken) (6)

16 Laurel turns A-Z into

verse (6)

18 Bottle that’s never

broken (5)

20 Family coming from

a Gaelic land (4)

DOWN

1 Floating aimlessly (6)

2 Unspecified person (7)

3 Undiluted (4)

4 Wardrobe essential (7,6) 5 Sewer system (8)

6 ___ to, familiar with (5)

7 Experiment with (3,3)

12 In good condition (4-4) 14 Feeling embarrassed (7) 15 Large flag (6)

16 Of yore (6)

18 Cowboy’s rope (5)

20 Fifth New Testament

book (4)