DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across 1 Breakfast’s starter to

lift cook ( 6)

4 Ancient drunk

gaoled ( 3- 3)

9 Annoy fellow inside with

firearm ( 5)

10 Cocaine moved to the

Pacific, perhaps ( 7)

11 Puts grease on family as

protective coat ( 7) 12 Best one, first in class in

subject ( 5)

13 I practised a new branch

of medicine ( 11)

18 Reportedly detect coins ( 5)

20 Person put forward to

reorganise one mine ( 7)

22 Communist stood for symbol of Lancashire ( 3,4)

23 Head of sales objects to

broadcasts ( 5)

24 Noticed the man with Edmund and Edwin ( 6)

25 Strange child? More than likely! ( 4- 2)

Down

1 Assume gold is found in hilltop ( 6)

2 Ramsey’s double’s

a plant ( 7)

3 Dot should start

to kiss ( 5)

5 Bigger kitchen

utensil, say ( 7)

6 Admit love for women getting up wordplay ( 3,2)

7 Two months to take the essence ( 6)

8 Climber getting enumeration mixed up ( 11)

14 Fantastic bodies about right to undress ( 7)

15 Dogs’ teeth ( 7)

16 Twenty lose direction before church char ( 6)

17 Spice up autumn,

for example ( 6)

19 Prod undraped statue holding end of prong ( 5)

21 Contemplated

scattered sedum ( 5)

QUICK CLUES Across

1 Cheerful ( 6)

4 Critical appraisal of a book,

film etc ( 6)

9 Seasonal stage show ( 5)

10 Edgy ( 7)

11 Naturally fermented beer ( 4,3)

12 Peaceful and happy bucolic

scene ( 5)

13 Employee on duty at night ( 5,6)

18 Clear ( 5)

20 Endanger ( 7)

22 Decorate ( a dish of food) ( 7)

23 Cold dish ( 5)

24 Chinese form of light

exercise ( 3,3) 25 ___ counter, radiation meter ( 6)

Down

1 Sports arbitrator ( 6)

2 Less than ( 7)

3 Smell ( 5)

5 Previous ( 7)

6 Piano key ( 5)

7 Judiciously ( 6)

8 Not heavy enough ( 11)

14 Fussy, particular ( 7)

15 Noise muffler ( 7)

16 Insignificant ( 6)

17 Silent floating

plane ( 6)

19 Welsh breed of dog ( 5)

21 Dated ( 5)