THE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Stay second (7) 5 Mohammedan lawyer in plain clothes (5) 8 Ivan’s rule was terrible in general (9) 9 Scoff at a point initially (3) 10 Dead slow (4) 12 It’s not right having no more surplus (4,4) 14 Risk not completing part of the church (6) 15 Confused brides refuse (6) 17 Pay no regard to a deduction (8) 18 It’s used in casting part of a film (4) 21 Bill’s partner in dalliance? (3) 22 He ends up in the relay race or tug-of-war (6,3) 24 Turner displayed in La Scala theatre (5) 25 Take the chair (3,4)

DOWN

1 Frame of mind? (5) 2 Soft greeting from a character in Greece (3) 3 Start being frank (4) 4 Pitched sets do turn out unexpectedly (6) 5 A train driver (8) 6 Give away lines? (4,5) 7 Limits in rents, perhaps (7) 11 Carriage entrance (9) 13 A touch of exaltation (8) 14 I’d colic, ruptured appendix? (7) 16 They will be less than the normal fare (6) 19 A brief note with direction for making fabric (5) 20 Apprentice dismissed for being a boor (4) 23 Low state of mind on loss of daughter (3)

ACROSS QUICK CLUES

1 Soft woollen fabric for suits etc. (7) 5 Blockhead (5) 8 Confess everything (4,5) 9 Be able to (3) 10 Not very good (2-2) 12 Customary (8) 14 Successively (2,1,3) 15 Church robing-room (6) 17 Merriment (8) 18 Jekyll’s literary alter ego (4) 21 Except (3) 22 Get rid of (9) 24 Irritable (5) 25 Terrestrial (7)

DOWN

1 Centre of interest (5) 2 Intention (3) 3 Subtle (4) 4 Allowable deviation (6) 5 In detention (8) 6 Inland (9) 7 A fine (7) 11 Portable guns, pistols etc. (5,4) 13 Good manners (8) 14 Restrain (7) 16 Conflict (6) 19 Poem expressing sorrow (5) 20 Person untruthful by

nature (4) 23 Forest tree with silvery

bark (3)

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