daily double
the easy way
ACROSS 1 Bewildered (7) 5 Excessively high (5) 8 Shameless (9) 9 Breach in hedge, fence etc. (3) 10 Rough uncouth man (4) 12 Predict (8) 14 On dry land (6) 15 Actor (6) 17 Scene of utter chaos (8) 18 Notion (4) 21 What’s more (3) 22 Conceited (3-6) 24 Smart (5) 25 To state (7)
DOWN 1 Confused sound of voices (5) 2 Disfigure (3) 3 Weak mentally (4) 4 Physician (6) 5 Without warning (8) 6 Quick to spot (5-4) 7 Widely liked (7) 11 Without precedent (7-2) 13 As like as not (8) 14 Decline to use vote (7) 16 Alliance (6) 19 South American mountain system (5) 20 Pile (4) 23 Colouring matter (3)
the hard way
ACROSS 1 Not hard to find ten line errors (7) 5 Non-U field event records (5) 8 He is held by a form of respect and revulsion (3,6) 9 A gold-plated propeller blade (3) 10 How fire can become widespread (4) 12 Took a quiet walk in the street and tumbled (8) 14 Wrongs a source of Shakespearean comedy (6) 15 Say positively that it’s a source of tension (6) 17 A new look for cars here (8) 18 Like one always starting in the East (4) 21 Are out for a time (3) 22 What a cash register does is to stop fiddling (4,5) 24 Tour arranged round Denmark’s first royal house (5) 25 Jacket twice as big as one sort of shirt (7)
DOWN 1 Afterwards? Dead right! (5) 2 Born of woman (3) 3 Aristocrat in a real mess (4) 4 Break for food in an attempt to reach agreement (6) 5 Gets into bad shape (8) 6 Takes responsibility for roughshod rules (9) 7 Big steps tried out on board (7) 11 Strong line taken at a trade exhibition? (4,5) 13 A rest for anyone who’s still alive (8) 14 Dedicated a Sterne novel (7) 16 Climbed - then peeled off (6) 19 A number with much to distribute (5) 20 Rising employment included a son of Isaac (4) 23 Billing omits Mr Crosby - sick (3)