National Post (National Edition)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Name found in Ruth and Leviticus (6) 5 One sells using only detailed slogan (8) 9 Resting point for bowlers? (8) 10 Disturbance in break for top diplomats? (6) 11 Record fifty with intent to tour capital on way back (8) 12 Businessman to publicise work after crash? (6) 13 African labourer endlessly wearing woolly again (8) 15 Manage range needing no introduction (4) 17 In speech, be inclined to offer remedy (4) 19 Influence continually found in a lot of drink (8) 20 Tough is flipping over novel — why read out loud? (6) 21 Page with line in the map scribbled in small book (8) 22 German gentleman breaking limits for solitary tipple (6) 23 Judge to withdraw with Liberal replacing Conservative (8) 24 Fool should follow parking information — it’s needed to get in (8) 25 Foreign songs making number one on the radio (6) DOWN 2 Excessive period to get up after a minute liqueur (8) 3 Force out duke on island over cabin (8) 4 Get rid of rubbish I created around area (9) 5 Result of inflation in the forties? (6-3,6) 6 Prisoner on mend after modifying sentence (7) 7 A river flowing round settled Australian city (8) 8 Converted to ritual in class (8) 14 Notification stirring one in retirement? (5,4) 15 Draws together society in photograph (6,2) 16 Simple old man wearing fewer clothes? (8) 17 Where mothers brood over the young in their clutches (3,5) 18 Base teen wrecked, one not seen? (8) 19 Sad book with argument that’s not intellectual (7)