CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Scare king during crusade (6) 4 Just right for salesman

retiring (6)

8 Household servant having row

in private (8)

10 Gaudy trim, not new (6) 11 Couple, almost an item (4) 12 Together, also being dealt with

by hospital (4,2,4)

13 Strangely, three sevens divided by 50 could be just the same (12)

16 Form of psychiatric treatment

one can’t receive? (5,7) 20 Common vegetables area

produces (10)

21 Jack, perhaps taken from

vehicle by daughter (4) 22 Power: film actor (6) 23 Difficult to understand, man

behind English boozer (8) 24 Caddie initially glued broken

club (6)

25 Lean film, name unknown (6)

DOWN

1 Fish from lake caught

by father (8) 2 Awkward writer turned

up in it (5)

3 Important person in recently taken photograph (7)

5 I’m great playing

Scott Joplin music (7) 6 One buying almost

flawless jumper (9) 7 Feel bitter about gift

head disposed of (6) 9 Chapter on model may make

one think (11)

14 A delight, the old being entertained by editor quick to notice things (5-4) 15 Scantiness may suggest strip,

say, in resort (8)

17 Watch old boy start a game of

tennis? (7)

18 They may be caught at sea and

obtained on wharf (7) 19 Student, one wearing short

dress for a prank (6) 21 Innocent, the Parisian in jail (5)