DOUBLE CROSSWORD

EASY ACROSS 8 Photograph (7)

9 Ring (9)

13 Vegetable (5)

14 Precise (5)

15 Right (7)

16 Hold (7)

17 Limber (5)

18 Bush (5)

20 Swift (5)

22 Fairness (6)

23 Light (6)

25 Competition (7)

27 Hide (7)

30 Considered (6)

31 Engrossed (6)

32 Old-fashioned (5)

35 Stick (5)

36 Obvious (5)

37 Wrestle (7)

39 Nonsense (7)

41 Lift (5)

42 Colour (5)

43 Unwilling (9)

44 Discourse (7)

DOWN

1 Sight (6)

2 Level (8)

3 Casual (4,3,4)

4 Penniless (9)

5 Instructor (7)

6 Myopia (5,5)

7 Formerly (4)

10 Agree (6)

11 Quarrel (4,3)

12 Outhouse (6)

19 Clothing (7)

21 Claim (7)

24 Meeting (3-8)

26 Great (10)

28 Sly (9)

29 Chorus (7)

30 Vice (6)

32 Game (8)

33 Chaperon (6)

34 Takes (7)

38 Verse (6)

40 Tip (4)

CRYPTIC ACROSS

8 Teaching you French, I got into trouble (7)

9 A vulgar answer that profits you little (3,6)

13 Incur increasingly in the preliminary

period (3-2)

14 Change myself, to take part in the finale (5)

15 Brave face the worker put on it (7)

16 Hold it against, anti-change (7)

17 Looking tired and wan, is taken off to the

doctor (5)

18 Find doing something they shouldn’t and

dismiss (5)

20 The animal is, though small, adroit (5)

22 The person giving orders is the clerk (6)

23 Continentals like Scot and son (6)

25 Amend to “punish” (7)

27 And I notice the inside has an aromatic

flavour (7)

30 “The Heat’s off” has a hard cover (6)

31 Succeed – in understanding the whole

thing? (6)

32 Have ready for the hen to use as a nest (3,2)

35 It shows pressures are up and the game

hasn’t started! (5)

36 Give everything back to (5)

37 He’s difficult to cope with is as much as you

can grasp (7)

39 Animal Cleo and Pat trained together (7)

41 Apart from a dessert that was sent back (5)

42 Material that, alas, the alsatians chewed

up (5)

43 Got out a sword, which does contribute

to (2,7)

44 The better half covered for the poor

worried soldier (7)

DOWN

1 Become hostile when you start to listen

to the radio (4,2)

2 Pause at the section of the paper showing

the strike (8)

3 Get into trouble when you cease to be an

adherent (4,7)

4 Most popular at the box office and

thoroughly U (3,6)

5 The bandit gets on to the ship as well (7)

6 Made available to every purse, no matter

what the difficulty (2,3,5)

7 A look back at operatic music (4)

10 The summary is exact but incomplete (6)

11 Nothing loth, about to take on a new

daily (7)

12 Is very keen to have one repair the

chest (6)

19 An essay about the old that’s very sad (7)

21 The last page of the novel found on the

shelf in the library (4,3)

24 Be aware of the procedure and be

familiar with the questionnaire (4,3,4)

26 A bit cheeky and not very friendly (6,4)

28 To deceive Oliver would be rash (9)

29 Also aim to capture the soldiers (7)

30 Making jam from scratch (6)

32 Yearn to have a bash at, though it’s

unlikely to be successful (4,4)

33 Points out the only run in the stockings (6)

34 The twenty-four hours without food will

be over in no time! (4,3)

38 More suited to being a mechanic (6)

40 See it as meaning “May I have your

attention” (4)