CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Steal and finish up here? (4) 3 Ring for service in Jewish bakery? (5) 6 Son remains in frame (4) 8 Making progress where folk meet? (9,6) 9 Unusually muted, embracing the speaker’s boredom (6) 10 One whose intake is sound (8) 11 Column from this writer, penetrating wall-to-wall coverage? (8) 13 Detective, 50, breaking into houses (6) 15 Right to head left, diverting more in shock (6) 17 City with west-facing heath, setting for soap action? (8) 19 Sword — I am against it going into wound mark (8) 21 That man caught cold touring island, getting feverish (6) 22 October — glacial melting enthrals one concerned with microscopic things (15) 23 Slight mumble (4) 24 Crew at sea coming alongside prow of keel in ruined ship (5) 25 Food left in cooler (4)

DOWN

1 Another thing — caps must be raised in place of entertainment (9) 2 Guided a jerk over castle (7) 3 Pub with old gadget for measuring glass (9) 4 Toff, defenceless clerk, becomes more kind (7) 5 Record Ordnance Survey trademarks (5) 6 Duck person doing spadework (9) 7 Frank seeing that engineers will come later (7) 12 Old school a learner with two degrees attends short time (4,5) 13 Film director’s thumb on part of gun (9) 14 Monocle is adjusted half a stop (9) 16 Swing over the whole of shipping area (7) 17 Checkout lines (7) 18 Capitol to be rebuilt from a visual perspective (7) 20 Cast finished, as one might say (5)