DOUBLE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC
DOWN
ACROSS
8 Improve quality of henna distributed by church (7)
9 Former one the French
banish (5)
10 Retains centimetre
outside – huge gap! (5) 11 Awfully rude in conclusion, though put up with it (7)
12 Immaculate nails Tess
put in order (9)
15 Best vessel sent
back (3)
16 Mimic chimpanzee (3) 17 Careless about placing
duck in stew (9)
20 Pressing therapy at
sushi place (7)
22 Professional life, English disregarded, for a vocational role (5) 24 In Salem, I am in US
city (5)
25 Hear crook is a fast
mover (7) 1 Traces changes, as responds to stimulus (6)
2 Which person at a
stop (4)
3 Memory aid for a thousand con men, I gathered (8)
4 Strike out as allowed in
the river (6)
5 Ruminants turning up
at waterside grass (4)
6 In opera they sing it, or
belt it out (8)
7 Satirise dupes travelling round north (4,2)
13 Overseas visitor, a guy going round Morecambe (8)
14 Drew the decks
roughly (8)
16 Take for granted
Sue and Sam are involved (6)
18 Origin of impudent
behaviour, it’s said (6) 19 Coarse like a
planet? (6)
21 Neat, square edge (4) 23 Celebrity raised
rodents (4)
QUICK
ACROSS
8 Clean (clothes) (7)
9 Member of a
coven (5)
10 Shirk (5)
11 Injured (a horse) to prevent it from winning a race (7)
12 Trimmed pork bones
in tangy sauce (5,4)
15 Bitterly cold (3)
16 Be sick (3)
17 Reddened by too
much ultraviolet (9)
20 Soft sweet (7)
22 High rank or
character (5)
24 Defence of being
elsewhere (5)
25 Saved from
danger (7)
DOWN
1 Adapts (6)
2 Cougar (4)
3 Lazy behaviour (8)
4 Sultanate bordering
Malaysia (6)
5 Absorbent cotton
pad (4)
6 Mare’s partner (8)
7 Tawdry (6)
13 Legendary island said to have sunk below the sea (8) 14 Self-righteous
complacency (8)
16 Noisy quarrel (6)
18 Type or disposition (6) 19 Fears intensely (6)
21 Singapore’s continent (4) 23 Image out of focus (4)
THE XFILES
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2021-10-15T07:00:00.0000000Z
2021-10-15T07:00:00.0000000Z
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