GUARDIAN CROSSWORD

Across 1 Choose — choice (6) 4 Golfer’s assistant (6) 9 Use up resources of (7) 10 Procreate (5) 11 Stratum (5) 12 Children’s game (7) 13 Form of alternative medicine (11) 18 Painstaking (7) 20 Scoundrel (5) 22 Vaulted (5) 23 Begin to deal with (2,5) 24 Malodorous (6) 25 Doctrine at odds with orthodoxy (6) Down 1 Rider’s seat (6) 2 Pert — cosmetic (informal) (5) 3 Free from confusion — tidy (5,2) 5 Prepare-to-stop signal (5) 6 Inhabitant (7) 7 First-born (6) 8 Nomenclature (11) 14 Body of dead meat

(7) 15 Caterer (anag) (7) 16 Weighing instrument (6) 17 With dexterity (6) 19 Calamitous (5) 21 Small woodland (5)