QUICK CLUES

ACROSS

1 To notice (6) 4 Carpentry tool (6)

9 In distant past (4,3) 10 Throw out (5) 11 Conjecture (5)

12 To fetter (7)

13 Sum of past performances (5,6) 18 Shrewdly tactful (7) 20 Salesman’s persuasive talk (5) 22 Fear-stricken state (5) 23 Uncommitted (7)

24 Stay in hiding (3,3) 25 Nothing more than (6)

DOWN

1 Torrential rain (6) 2 Slight colouring (5) 3 A definitive work (7) 5 Wild doglike carnivore (5) 6 Legislature’s presiding officer (7) 7 Suds (6)

8 The turf (11)

14 Let loose (7)

15 Take prisoner (7)

16 Wide untidy expanse (6) 17 Rather cold (6)

19 Speed and rhythm (5) 21 Crisply brief (5)