DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS CRYPTIC DOWN

5 Little Diana’s performed and shown off (9)

8 Very English French resort and Italian city (6)

9 Lovely starter swallowed by terribly hairy girl (6)

10 Get rid of hatchet (3)

11 Boron should be

paid for (6)

13 Sort of seed, half

seed no different (6)

15 Rudder takes two

lefts in a row (6)

18 Pipework to yank round rubbish receptacle (6)

20 I say ‘Love’ (3)

21 Let out tender

model (6)

22 Feel aggrieved about some misrepresentation (6)

23 Huntsman’s back, about to stay the night (5,4) 1 Provoking the Italian

in boxing arena (6)

2 Increase pulse and

get optimistic (6)

3 Big cuts she’s seen in

fuel (6)

4 Locked room with very

large instruments (6)

6 Station almost installed

and set down (9)

7 In favour of pit, conservationists in the public eye (9)

12 Shade of colour that

accompanies cry (3)

14 Bird in the

Murrumbidgee (3)

16 Leading lady at

cathedral recently (6)

17 Unexpectedly erased Middle Eastern feature (3,3)

18 Some actor portraying

inactivity (6)

19 The Spanish needed to support shrub and wheat measure (6)

QUICK

ACROSS

5 With an all-round view (9)

8 Slum area (6)

9 Interfering impertinently (6)

10 Adversary (3)

11 Defer (3,3)

13 Even chance or choice (4-2)

15 Assert positively (6)

18 Means of ascent (6)

20 ___ de nil, pale green colour (3)

21 Woollen garment (6)

22 Strong (6)

23 Unfaithful spouse (9)

DOWN

1 Permanent skin

decoration (6)

2 Make excuses to

(someone) (3,3)

3 Red gemstone (6)

4 Caresses with

the lips (6)

6 Person employed

to drive a car (9)

7 Looking into (9) 12 ___ from the Madding

Crowd, Hardy novel (3) 14 ___ for, decide on (3) 16 Obstruct (6) 17 Purely, solely (6)

18 Light evening meal (6)

19 Branching horn of a deer (6)