CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Everyone at home is exhausted (3,2) 4 Stay to drink wine (7)

8 Ring us back about a trifling sum of foreign money (3)

Well below the normal size (9)

A cleric angered about being screened (7) Weightlifter gets a long bill (5)

Sewer used for the introduction of drugs (6)

15 The faith of many in meat (6)

18 Not a crime to be coolly carried out (5) 19 A novel division of the church (7)

21 Fails to be made use of in rescues (9) 23 Anger in answering back (3)

24 Bad hands (7)

25 Fireside game? (5)

DOWN

1 There’s no place for him (4-3) 2 Washerwoman makes the French remove their clothes (9)

Alan’s wrong to be nosy (5)

Stepped out in Dorset, maybe (6) Dashing manner that gives a god pain (7) It reduces toil (3)

It goes up before the tax (5)

One who is may not understand it’s somewhat excessive (1,3,5)

14 Was it used in operating a big fiddle? (7) 16 An ancestor to spare (7)

17 Throws away useless bits? (6)

18 It should include these mountains (5) 20 Maybe Poe’s a past expert at telling fabulous tales (5)

Favouring some comfort (3) 9 10 11 13 3 4 5 6 7 12 22

DOWN

1 King Arthur’s capital (7) 2 Using undue force (6-3) 3 Separate into factions (5) 4 Fundamental principles (6) 5 Narrow-minded (7)

6 Melody (3)

7 Unfashionably dressed (5) 12 Apparent worth (4,5) 14 Mosquito-borne fever (7) 16 Snake (7)

17 Military insurrection (6) 18 Express in particular style (5) 20 A salad plant (5)

22 Put on (3)