THE CROSSWORDS

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Enormous crack in attic (7)

5 Eye-catching gadgets (5)

8 I’m our last resort for teaching grounded pilots (9)

9 Henry emerges as 50 per cent less loud (3) 10 In the near future and the like (4)

12 Eric goes to the wrong loch and becomes angry (8)

14 An egg I scrambled obviously not new-laid (6) 15 He doesn’t think much of others (6)

17 Field division that takes years to train (8) 18 State of pure chaos (4)

21 In short I had a name for her (3)

22 Command rests with those on duty (9) 24 Principle of having it both ways? (5)

25 Doctor gets a work-permit to set up drip (7)

DOWN

1 Imposed duties (5)

2 Man with German upbringing (3)

3 Africa’s most important currency (4) 4 Attractive number on yacht all at sea (6)

5 If you study it you may become an expert in time (8)

6 To go up to her is sensible - under different conditions (9)

7 Extremely lawful to ask (7)

11 Exaggerated account discredited (9)

13 How one’s stomach may feel with liver not in order? (2,6)

14 Unbeliever is at the assembly (7)

16 Being wealthy was charged (6)

19 Rising and descent of the sun produces disturbance (5)

20 Freight unopened in Jason’s ship (4)

23 Some pills for feeling sick (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Rebuke (7)

5 Spell of self-indulgence (5) 8 Informed and alert (2,3,4) 9 Breach of moral law (3) 10 Hindu system of philosophy (4) 12 Inconstant (8)

14 Spider’s trap (6) 15 Categorically (6)

17 Clumsy (8)

18 Ancient stringed instrument (4) 21 Runner used on snow (3) 22 Obliquely (2,2,5)

24 Easy to lift (5)

25 Having died out (7)

DOWN

1 Spacious (5)

2 Large deep hole (3) 3 Carry out an order (4) 4 Display ostentatiously (6) 5 At maximum speed (4,4) 6 Tiny (4-5)

7 Use of artillery (7) 11 Find no accepter (2,7) 13 Irresolute (8) 14 Advise (7)

16 To split (6)

19 Put up (5) 20 Poverty (4)

23 Snare (3)