The Mercury E-dition

CRYPTIC DOUBLE CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Doesn’t get drunk (6) 4 Hackneyed saying about Chile’s reform movement (6) 9 Out of clothes? (13)

10 Painter taking a vehicle to the embankment (3,4) 11 Bondsman? (5)

12 Rates as a flower (5)

14 Join or untie badly (5) 18 Grown-up isn’t right (5) 19 Expert goes to the gallery for a chemical (7)

21 Be overpresumptuous about what a dictator might do (4,9)

22 In ecstasy about art pen (6) 23 Bighead meets a villain with an Irish accent (6)

DOWN

1 Despicable disease (6)

2 Mad to fall off a chair (3,4,6) 3 It’s awfully easy to hide a small composition (5)

5 A broken antler the Norman leader used for a light (7)

6 The Prime Minister’s craft? (7-6)

7 The cross one is Roman (6) 8 New ideas for the assistants (5)

13 Encourage to throw a drink (3,4)

15 Was out to get the bandage (6)

16 A month to live perhaps (5) 17 A man has to observe the tenant (6)

20 A terrorist’s mistake (5)

THE XFILES

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