CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Less familiar way to meet

worker in park (8)

6 Jar for this berry? (4)

9 Unusual question – not to one

that sparkles? (6)

10 Star perhaps in top window (8) 11 Did not forget and picked up

again (11)

14 Factory still dry i.e.

peculiar! (10)

15 Dickens will accept article for

Ruth’s husband (4)

16 10, say, entering Virginia (4) 17 Boring bird? (10) 19 Connoisseurs, one hundred with

terrible congestion (11) 22 Advantage facing high ground in

Civil War battle (8)

23 Flexible western dropout? (6) 24 Good person – and

a good party (4) 25 Coward’s work that could make

one sniffy (3,5)

DOWN

2 United drew (4)

3 Come up against

an objection (4)

4 Refined chap, slippery type (7) 5 Cure the heart-sore

lot suffering (7,2,6)

6 Princely payment? (7)

7 Turn on or off, then reverse to

find railway (10) 8 One who is working at last (9) 12 Type of betting established

inequality (5,4)

13 Acquisition of rough mat in a

tent (10)

17 Witty fellow covering part of leg

for cleaning (7)

18 Course not to be taken by

drivers (7)

20 About four, I, in France,

dance (4)

21 Another pew seating elder

initially in part of church (4)