DOUBLE CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES ACROSS: 1 Agreement (9)

8 In the past (3)

9 Subterranean (11)

11 Wise (7)

12 Muse of lyric poetry (5)

13 Globe (6)

15 Account book (6)

17 Deathly pale (5)

18 Save (7)

20 Lectern (7,4)

22 Ovum (3)

23 N. Sea-Baltic waterway (4,5) DOWN: 2 Possess (3)

3 Weird (5)

4 Elf (6)

5 Compress (7)

6 Swear words (3,8)

7 Assembly (9)

10 Anti-submarine bomb (5,6) 11 Kept up (9)

14 Plunder (7)

16 Strive for high things (6)

19 Reasoning (5)

21 Health resort (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS: 1 They may go from one side to the other (9)

8 A somewhat mysterious seaport (3)

9 Don’t let the others inherit – I’ll see to it! (5,2,2,2) 11 Transform it I can’t – it’s so big! (7)

12 Catch the girl with a ring (5)

13 The doctor got up looking gloomy (6)

15 Assumes as one’s own? (6)

17 It is in the tax (5)

18 Grooms – Indian fashion? (7)

20 Bad mixers (3,3,5)

22 She’s not allowed in bed! (3)

23 A ruinous craft (9)

DOWN: 2 You have one week in which to find the animal (3)

3 New – to ocean travel? (5)

4 Disconnect the cad perhaps (6)

5 Oil ran about and caused damage (7)

6 Peer at a sign put around in the actor’s dressing room (11)

7 They come out of their shells when born but can go back in them when disturbed (9)

10 Neat tailors may make them, of course (11)

11 When it is, the creditor may not allow it! (4,2,3) 14 Shot at you, as peas might be (7)

16 They’re just part of the act (6)

19 He has to exert some pull to make headway (5) 21 As before, it’s used in poetry (3)