CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Broken sculpture (4)

3 Time in vehicles — and other vehicles? (5) 6 Villain heading off for part of church (4)

8 Broken leg woman athlete will get in sport with posh boys (3,4,4,4) 9 Access space by bay perhaps (6) 10 Former partner with case making excessive demand (8) 11 Drawing cleaner fuel (8) 13 Adult in Switzerland rented house (6) 15 Standards applied to cleric (6) 17 Second free product taken on beach holiday? (8) 19 Doctor upset carrying hooligan by a carriage (8) 21 Lingerie comes back to life apparently (6) 22 Betook meat feast, cooked, and large fruit (9,6) 23 Regularly indulge, shunning work (4) 24 Historical novelist greeting the queen (5) 25 Arrest devil? (4) DOWN

1 Flower that’s flatter round top of calyx (9) 2 Carpets woven in bands of colour (7) 3 Stop broadcasting comedian introducing uplifting poems (5,4) 4 Harsh treatment of king on trial by the sound of it (3,4) 5 Starters of a spicy Latin American sauce served up (5) 6 Glint half put out resulting in darkness (9) 7 See a large elk get lost! (7) 12 Assign new posts as revolutionary fresh fuel (9) 13 Person in charge, a live wire maybe (9) 14 What shoplifter does to assess the situation (4,5) 16 Help carrying flightless bird for fool (7) 17 Abstract calculation carried out by woman (7) 18 I’m a bank that’s put up folding stuff (7) 20 Make plans to steal lead from roof? (5)