NOT SO EASY

2024-04-16 -

ACROSS

01. It will take one in ten to marry after December 1st (8)

04. It is unruffled and appears in a vertical manner (4)

08. Stop and hold, the stoppage having been brought back (3)

09. Too big an order to see the end off (5)

10. No end of sour, black stuff (3)

11. Paid for another to be dealt with by doctor (7)

12. To be is, in extent, ten fewer (5)

13. One linking himself with respiratory trouble? (56)

17. A pause that gets inverted before quotation (5)

18. Troopleader tore off – and fell, perhaps (7)

20. Be sorry for a plant that smells strongly (3)

21. Is not up to being untruthful (5)

22. Sanctimonious end of worship is something seedy (3)

23. A line in print made in a hurry? (4)

24. They creep East and South with tripleadjustment (8)

01. Signify a halfmanufactured informal letter (6)

02. Wire for taxi, the French conclusion (5)

03. You and I, taken in by Edward, are material (5)

05. People must be feet apart to be so (7)

06. Deserves to stir half of them up (6)

07. Unrolling, is making the image visible (10)

09. A bible? Not a change that may be got! (10)

14. Trounces the nailknockers (7)

15. Cut lines and got a goal (6)

16. They are skilled, being pasted by mistake (6)

18. Honeycomb, perhaps, is rubbish (5)

19. Daddy, at fifty, is connected with the Vatican (5)

1. Bungalows 5. Ewe 7. Rats 8. Snapping 10. Innocent 11. Wend 13. Hungry 15. Critic 18. Fire 19. Champion 22. Neutrals 23. Base 24. Dye 25. Greenness

1. Burnish 2. Not on 3. Owning 4. Saps 5. Eminent 6. Egged 9. Scare 12. Frump 14. Nurture 16. Confess 17. Shelve 18. Fined 20. Image 21. Brag