DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

1 A doctor went first but

didn’t rush (6)

4 More candid cricketer? (6)

8 Foreign friend I am sorry

to leave (5)

9 Urged popular edict to

be changed (7)

10 Sound of sneeze – what did you say you require for it? (7) 11 Confuse with funny walk

when wife’s gone (5)

12 Posh language when supporting marshland plant (9)

17 Model copied and

recorded (5)

19 Misty blue ran amok (7)

21 Group, one hundred of

enduring merit (7)

22 Basket-maker taking top off

to be more comfy (5) 23 Cruel person

depressed at first (6)

24 Burden to queue,

it’s said (6)

Down

1 Girl follows despicable person back in virtual form (6)

2 Temporary release provided by female housing agent (7)

3 Hundred in desperate

hope for a time (5)

5 Choose to dispense

with tool (7)

6 Famous school

returns daughter (5)

7 Director more impolite about head of department (6)

9 Origin can become

artifical (9)

13 Wonky studs in those

without clothes (7)

14 I will shortly be embraced by monarch – hilarious! (7)

15 Heaps horse riding

equipment in ship (6)

16 Housing problem causes medic to turn Conservative (3,3)

18 Penny put down

Scottish material (5)

20 Chap penniless,

right to left (5)

QUICK CLUES

Across

1 Strong, sturdy (6)

4 Form into a regular

order (4,2)

8 Triangular part of a wall

beneath the roof (5)

9 Former (3-4)

10 Bring out again (7)

11 Inappropriate (5)

12 Ill-conceived (4-5)

17 In a strange way (5)

19 Transparent sheet on top

of artwork (7)

21 Infatuated (7)

22 Is morally obliged (to) (5)

23 Tie with a rope (6) 24 Member of the clergy (6)

Down

1 Deference (6)

2 Immature (7)

3 Phases (5)

5 Male deer (7)

6 Peculiar (5)

7 Make an advance adjustment (6)

9 Inflated, exaggerated (9)

13 Clothing and accessories for

a newborn infant (7)

14 Turkish ___, jelly-like sweet (7)

15 Supportive garment (6)

16 Shellfish delicacy (6)

18 Gist (5)

20 Summon up (5)