daily double

the hard way

ACROSS 1 Quick drink about tea time (5) 4 Cheerful potato slicer (7) 8 Strike a blow for modern type of music (3) 9 Definitely not many bones broken (2,2,5) 10 A plumber and fitter (7) 11 Speak when you’re spoken to (5) 13 Angry outbursts in play (6) 15 On paper he has an important role (6) 18 Sailors may take a turn round them (5) 19 It’s disturbing having the wrong spirit in work (7) 21 Communist and German worker no longer needed (9) 23 He’s about to get a kiss (3) 24 Many are found to follow Leviticus (7) 25 I raced around and looked (5)

DOWN 1 Checks made by police (7) 2 Indiscreet and saucy? About right (9) 3 Be sent up to bed having gone into a decline (5) 4 Bird islands (6) 5 Shut up! (7) 6 Endless fruit - but only one vegetable (3) 7 One cannot be sure if such a situation exists (5) 12 Tip or pour out a delightful mixture (9) 14 The heart of a German city church (7) 16 Slackened and became loose in a rush (7) 17 Animals unleashed on society? (6) 18 Peer out of an empty farm building (5) 20 Tries new forms of worship (5) 22 10 cents is pointless and plain dumb (3)

the easy way

ACROSS 1 Centre (5) 4 Illuminate (7) 8 Make heavy demands on (3) 9 Italian operatic tenor (9) 10 German type of china (7) 11 Put into effect (5) 13 Justification (6) 15 Be rightly classified (6) 18 To shift (5) 19 To sanction (7) 21 Italian conductor (9) 23 Vex (3) 24 Sanitary principles (7) 25 Species of large crow (5)

DOWN 1 A bullfighter (7) 2 Kind of early jazz (9) 3 Slightly warm (5) 4 Fond (6) 5 Relevant (7) 6 Very small child (3) 7 Making a din (5) 12 Composer of Peter and the Wolf (9) 14 Unnerve (7) 16 Small cucumber for pickling (7) 17 Extreme scarcity of food (6) 18 Female dog (5) 20 Earlier (5) 22 Subside under weight (3)