CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 After treatment Alice is a new woman (5) 4 Ill-mannered dog? (7) 8 Mass commercial for crackers (3) 9 Nonstop flight (9) 10 Article written about musical

performance (7) 11 Badly cared for timber (5) 13 Dolt is exceptionally unmoved (6) 15 Shares all items currently

available (6) 18 Haven found among Samoa’s islands (5) 19 Troops didn’t finish the course (7) 21 Lady killer (9) 23 Check the club is returned (3) 24 A virtue easily cultivated (7) 25 Rule book (5)

DOWN

1 They take pictures a hundred - a thousand - times (7) 2 I leave ridiculous organisation; it’s farcical (9) 3 Generation not seen as representative (5) 4 Preserve from predicament (6) 5 It’s forbidden; and badly one hundred take it (7) 6 Small drink for a small child (3) 7 Not so common in wear are red socks (5) 12 Having had a 10% cut last month I got married (9) 14 How one may make progress on one’s feet (7) 16 Spit in the sea (7) 17 Such a person may have too much on his plate (6) 18 Go round twice at speed (5) 20 Man having to show zest (5) 22 Manage to race (3)

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