DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS: 1

Reaction about a section of the orchestra (12)

7 Tom will return if dominant theme is required (5)

8 Note that comes back in reverberations (5)

9 How not to be a proprietor inside (3)

10 Sash superfluous, we hear, to the orchestra (9)

11 He has a poor try to give this kind of welcome (6)

12 Lack of order in game

– it may be difficult to solve (6)

15 Bring up the stove and place in a different position (9)

17 Keep finding fault with poor horse (3)

18 Father has upset the Ottoman governor (5)

19 As bad habits, they are difficult to break free from (5)

21 A race for disposing of a dish (7,5)

DOWN: 1 Curative treatment involving listening to the wireless? (12)

2 Nonsense coming back in eloquent oratory (3)

3 Far from just a description of a brunette! (6)

4 Body of matter for understanding! (9)

5 A stone ring brought up – often mentioned in Greek texts (5)

6 It won’t be used in lively communication (4,8)

7 Sounds like the style by which the Israelites were fed (5)

10 What rain before autumn will produce? (9)

13 A species of large African antelopes seen around the East (5)

14 Unequally matched, so it’s not on the level (6)

16 A pleasant spot in the ocean that leads to the altar (5)

20 Hat and cloak shortened (3)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS DOWN

1 Teacher (12) 1 Meteor (8,4)

7 Danger (5) 2 Scull (3)

8 Come in (5) 3 Matured (6)

9 Haul (3) 4 Gamble (9)

10 Persuasive 5 Consumed (5) speech (9) 6 Gardening skill 11 Constricted (6) (5,7)

12 Distant (3,3) 7 Might (5)

15 Profanation (9) 10 Excitable (9) 17 A vast age (3) 13 Corpulent (5) 18 Foreign (5) 14 Defeated (6) 19 At that point (5) 16 Porcelain (5) 21 Yachts (7,5) 20 Recede (3)