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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Sustain in hours of trouble (7) 5 Costume hard to get out of (5) 8 New or ancient vessel (9) 9 Could be one which will last a long time (3) 10 Measure taken to indicate marriage relations (4) 12 Certainly no favourite with society (8) 14 Talented number go to the bar (6) 15 An idle form of rejection (6) 17 Angry about dress getting wet (8) 18 Enclosures for birds (4) 21 Carriage goes back and forth (3) 22 It’s only fair the board should

accept new role (9) 24 First job-finder for those

without work? (5) 25 Without any breaks? That’s no

French way to work (7)

DOWN

1 Superficial wounds sound nothing (5) 2 Badly run vessel (3) 3 I’m a leader of Muslims (4) 4 Get off or put on the line (4,2) 5 Fool raced around considerably vexed (8) 6 Those on it will need dough (9) 7 A growing attachment (7) 11 A way of looking for respect (4,5) 13 Raise the number swallowed by a bird (8) 14 Makes oneself fearfully small (7) 16 Illicitly acquired bundle of pound notes (6) 19 Caught by crooks perhaps (5) 20 Smile at the end of a Wagnerian

opera (4) 23 The label is upside-down - it

often is (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Fit of temper (7) 5 Quiet in colour (5) 8 Hear rumour about (3,4,2) 9 Sharp knock (3) 10 Identical (4) 12 Practicable (8) 14 Tastelessly showy (6) 15 Swoop in attack (6) 17 Raised road across wet ground (8) 18 Accustomed (4) 21 Establish by inquiry (3) 22 Disintegrate (4,5) 24 Greatly dismay (5) 25 Expose to public ridicule (7)

DOWN

1 Spain and Portugal’s longest river (5) 2 After all deductions (3) 3 Sudden surprise attack (4) 4 Infuriate (6) 5 Sentimental weakness (4,4) 6 Just the essential elements (4,5) 7 Filled to satiety (7) 11 Have necessary qualifications (7,2) 13 In good spirits (8) 14 Showily flowered decorative shrub (7) 16 Heavy blow (6) 19 Amusingly eccentric (5) 20 Annoy (4) 23 Time-wasting bother (3)