THE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 One with a consuming desire to chop up a tree (5) 4 Loot might be so piled (7) 8 Wood used in model-making (3) 9 Chided for having a bun perhaps (9) 10 Underworld boss dispatched for making protest (7) 11 Fruit crop (5) 13 Outmoded love is destined for failure (6) 15 Suitable voice for a trio? (6) 18 Influenced utterly to get a soft leather (5) 19 Put some notes in order? (7) 21 Hardly the type to make a good lookout (9) 23 Natural product of arctic environment (3) 24 Beat fellow to the line (7) 25 Just correct (5)

DOWN

1 Chaps caught in foul deed are corrected (7) 2 Last monument in Arizona? (9) 3 Incite audible quarrels (5) 4 One of those coming out scoffed at argument (6) 5 Clear off unruly campers (7) 6 Not even out of the ordinary (3) 7 Youth has the French spoon (5) 12 Stiff - but relaxing (9) 14 This is irritating for sightseers naturally (7) 16 Mountain’s name always is in French (7) 17 Take notice. Tom is welcome inside (6) 18 Relocation is needed for some workers (5) 20 Moving arm up and down (5) 22 Some shade from the sun (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Father and son, explorers of Americas (5) 4 To lower (7) 8 Excessively (3) 9 Tied (3,6) 10 Recompense (7) 11 Expressed publicly (5) 13 Capital of Poland (6) 15 Accustom (6) 18 A savoury jelly (5) 19 Poetic pastoral paradise (7) 21 Judge’s review of evidence (7-2) 23 Usual tedious procedure (3) 24 Framework of wooden ship (7) 25 Insincere (5)

DOWN

1 Person used by another (4-3) 2 Hazard set to kill the unwary (5,4) 3 Find whereabouts of (5) 4 Strike out (6) 5 Spicy (7) 6 Historical period (3) 7 Use up (5) 12 Journey there and back (5,4) 14 To attribute (7) 16 Just so (7) 17 River sacred to Hindus (6) 18 Useful quality (5) 20 Wood of small trees (5) 22 Silent (3)