CRYPTIC CLUES
Quick Clues
ACROSS
7. Expansion (6)
8. Hue (6)
10. Work (7)
11. Buffoonery (5)
12. Praise (4)
13. Annul (5)
17. Vigil (5)
18. Carry (4)
22. Chief (5)
23. Destructive (7)
24. Tell (6)
25. Movement (6)
DOWN
1. Base (7)
2. Sad (7)
3. Purloin (5)
4. Admit (7)
5. Plank (5)
6. Raw (5)
9. Tomb (9)
14. Superiority (7)
15. Put down (7)
16. Gift (7)
19. Appendage (5)
20. Cunning (5)
21. Hinge (5)
Yesterday’s Solutions
ACROSS: 1 Cover; 4 Provide; 8 Upright; 9 Trade; 10 Tied; 11 Vocalist; 13 Pang; 14 Idle; 16 Elegance; 17 Glut; 20 Thing; 21 All over; 22 Remorse; 23 Mirth.
DOWN: 1 Counterfeiter; 2 Verve; 3 Rage; 4 Petrol; 5 Outwards; 6 Imagine; 7 Electric torch; 12 Endanger; 13 Premium; 15 Scrape; 18 Lover; 19 Glum.
ACROSS
7. Presumably it is not seen without cause (6) Suave town egghead (6) No one returns with sore back ‚Äì but it’s wearing down (7) Set of people become mature after losing direction (5)
12. Bird with a sense of fun? (4)
13. Rebuke 100 who conceal themselves (5)
17. European vegetable (5)
18. Send a ball down the vessel (4)
22. Get composer in a tangle? (5)
23. Allowance of food in Parliament? (7)
24. Trusted adviser with workers on hill (6)
25. Tried hard to get the voters out (6)
Yesterday’s Solutions ACROSS: 1 Fives; 4 Granite; 8 Torpedo; 9 Pique; 10 Apex; 11 Esurient; 13 Stay; 14 Knot; 16 Tea break; 17 Adam; 20 Raise; 21 Clement; 22 Saddler; 23 Loser.
DOWN: 1 Fits and starts; 2 Verne; 3 Shed; 4 Grouse; 5 Apparent; 6 Inquest; 7 Electric motor; 12 Fair deal; 13 Seabird; 15 Saucer; 18 Dress; 19 Well.
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DOWN
1. Well disciplined person on duty (7)
2. Stonework produced by boy in army construction (7)
Doctor has rival in film (5)
Old people in attempt to produce sad play (7) With which the conductor indicates the innings shouldn’t close? (5)
Gathered up work rising to rhythm (5) On trial, having berthed (2,3,4)
Gulp down bird (7)
It takes a wise man to see the sun and moon out together (7)
Sues sly old hero (7)
Have a small drink before a play (5) 6 eaten by one of sheep (5)
It may develop into friendship (5)
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