THE CROSSWORDS
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Benefit a few and suffer for it (5) 4 Cursed, having spilt the salt in bed (7) 8 Rubbish put round the hill (3)
9 Its ups and downs may be studied by the pilot (4,5)
10 I join two hundred in a game that’s played (7) 11 Money belt (5)
13 Given support or cast out (6)
15 Shy and put out when spots appear (6)
18 A way always short and direct (5) 19 Officer’s responsibility given to the men (7) 21 A dog hunts? This sort does (9)
23 Note Eastern animal (3) 24 Apparently an off-day for twelve (7)
25 For those not wishing to take flight (5)
DOWN
1 A support thus put up is appropriate (7) 2 Take choir in a new version of what may follow ‘Jerusalem’ (9)
3 Much attached to a game of chance (5) 4 A scoundrel not worth bidding for (3,3)
5 A stiff examination (7)
6 Check the night-flier has turned up (3) 7 Anxiety shown by redhead coming in late (5) 12 Foe had run into unprecedented difficulty (7-2)
14 Had tree replaced, safe from lightning (7) 16 A send-up on board produced melancholy (7) 17 Busy tenant (6)
18 It’s South Africa in the sun for her (5)
20 A sitter, for example (5)
22 An attempt in the past (3)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Small bit (5) 4 Meantime (7)
8 North Atlantic food fish (3) 9 Obtained dishonestly (3-6) 10 Model of perfection (7) 11 Source of fear (5) 13 Sudden stab of pain (6) 15 Treat leniently (3,3) 18 Scene of struggle (5)
19 A German porcelain (7) 21 Having secret agreement (2,7) 23 By way of (3)
24 Single eyeglass (7)
25 In good time (5)
DOWN
1 Pilot’s compartment (7) 2 Being attacked (5,4) 3 Attract (5) 4 Ticking over (6) 5 Disturb (7)
6 Decay (3)
7 Virile (5)
12 Explain away (5,4) 14 Vividly described (7) 16 Illusion (7)
17 Force on others (6) 18 Self-evident truth (5) 20 Publication (5) 22 Metal container (3)