Double crossword
CRYPTIC CLUES:
Across
1. Return to a state
of liquidity (4)
8. Is he stranded in
mid-air? (4-6)
9. Provided a fresh
stock and made
good (8)
10. The beginnings
of any pleasant
summer
excursion for a
recess (4)
12. Savage from
Recife (6)
14. Catapults
providing
support for
injured members
(6)
15. A lonely man
who takes the
girl’s hand, we
hear! (6)
17. What will
provide a way in
past the French
ambassador (6)
18. Part of the
Bible’s authority associated
with Jacob (4)
19. Could be a tiger near meat !
(3-5)
21. Frustrate a record on sure
winner (10)
22. Evict some of the
impecunious tenants (4)
Down
2. Rows in houses revealing
domesticity! (10)
3. Put down unfinished legal
document (4)
4. Thinly scattered at both ends
of a space course (6)
5. Vegetables for citizens of
Stockholm (6)
6. Removing obstructions to
make space in the forest (8)
7 & 17 Dn. No charge for
weapons for the self-
employed (4-6)
11. They travel around to look at
a prophet in spectacles (5-5)
13. Potent drink showing strange
striking power (3-5)
16. Making a note of the
minutes? (6)
17. See 7 Down.
18. Currently occurring as a
revolutionary movement (4)
20. A man of high note (4)
QUICK CLUES:
Across
1. Deficiency (4)
8. Impracticable (10)
9. Conclusive (8)
10. Engrave (4)
12. Take risks (6)
14. Powerful (6)
15. Optical illusion (6)
17. Ignoble (6)
18. At one time (4)
19. Shrink (8)
21. Valued too low (10)
22. Always (4)
Down
2. Change (10)
3. New Zealand bird (4)
4. Elf (6)
5. Dormant (6)
6. Manager (8)
7. Network (4)
11. Appropriate (10)
13. Ornamental band (8)
16. Armed guard (6)
17. Reason (6)
18. Responsibility (4)
20. Travel on horse back (4)
Yesterday’s answers
DOUBLE CROSSWORD:
Cryptic: Across: 7 Urges; 8 Contend;
9 Top-side; 10 Ceded; 12 Distribute; 15
Second-hand; 18 Dream; 19 Notable; 21
Tenants; 22 Roses.Down: 1 Buttressed;
2 Agape; 3 Asti; 4 Accent; 5 Inaction; 6
Needful; 11 Dress sense; 13 Ignominy; 14
Screens; 16 Honest; 17 Obese; 20 Tory.
Quick: Across: 7 House; 8 Pretend; 9
Absolve; 10 Inter; 12 Compliment; 15
Correspond; 18 Latch; 19 Interim; 21
Incense; 22 Learn. Down: 1 Theatrical;
2 Quest; 3 Feel; 4 Upkeep; 5 Sedition; 6
Heathen; 11 Retirement; 13 Overhang; 14
Protect; 16 Pained; 17 Break; 20 Tilt.