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THE CROSSWORD
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 The rest of the birds find fish (5) 4 Win prosperity (7) 8 Resin out of place (3) 9 Edit a clue perhaps to make it clear (9) 10 New verse I’d corrected (7) 11 Poet takes orders (5) 13 Possibly arrest a famous French writer (6) 15 Snakes around and creeps furtively (6) 18 Many poems need deciphering (5) 19 A game of cards - contract perhaps (7) 21 Account that’s due comes rolling in (9) 23 Edible food sometimes bolted (3) 24 Put quickly into words? (7) 25 Jog with no clothes on around Ghanaian capital (5)
DOWN
1 Bright star in spiral ring complex (7) 2 Got back my umbrella as good as new (9) 3 Takes notice of the editor when he’s around (5) 4 Stout king in his den (6) 5 Yellow bird (7) 6 An article on Queen Elizabeth’s age (3) 7 Measures taken to decorate indoors? (5) 12 Gave up and left (9) 14 Support a mineral cure (7) 16 Symbol of respect perhaps (7) 17 Dogs may be sick of it (6) 18 A wire 200 yards long (5) 20 Wild anger of Lear’s daughter (5) 22 Partly clipped it may be curled (3)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 A particular aspect (5) 4 Papal palace in Rome (7) 8 Type of sporting trophy (3) 9 Obtained by dishonest means (3-6) 10 Person’s private room (7) 11 Extravagantly bright (5) 13 Language of the Koran (6) 15 Impressed clearly (6) 18 Ride a bicycle (5) 19 Antiquated (7) 21 Confess everything (4,5) 23 Put on (clothes) (3) 24 Nocturnal (7) 25 Big and strong (5)
DOWN
1 A decorative flowering shrub (7) 2 Humbly (3,2,4) 3 Contaminate (5) 4 Quantity of sound (6) 5 Consideration (7) 6 Share of profits (3) 7 Child’s nurse (5) 12 Without precedent (7-2) 14 Unlawful (7) 16 Propriety (7) 17 That is to say (6) 18 North American hickory nut (5) 20 A sure thing (5) 22 A drinking vessel (3)