THE CROSSWORDS

1 Smith works at it to make

money (5)

4 Shows Scene IV differently

(7)

8 Powerful vessel returns in

the canal (3) 9 Passenger-carrying flight

(9)

10 Runs lightly onto the scene

- and stumbles (5,2) 11 Granted a certain amount

of price deduction (5) 13 Fruit is when rain is about

(6)

15 Footholds in the financial

world? (6)

18 Hotel employees a long

time in extra thought (5) 19 Troops don’t finish the

course (7)

21 Better value for money?

How absurd! (9)

23 Not a smart-looking boat,

but the reverse (3)

24 A quick reply by one who is

foiled (7)

25 A disposition to command

(5) 1 2

3 4

5 6 7 12 14 16 17 18 20 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 12 14 16 17 18 20 22

Aircraft destined for scrap (7)

Keeping it in range, perhaps (9)

Levels up the odds (5) Welcome break for a prisoner? (6)

It’s forbidden, and badly one hundred take it (7) Share with a deal to follow (3)

There’s a scrap when a communist is told to be quiet (5) Medicated preparation reduced by 10% (9) How one may make progress on one’s feet (7) Seaside bank that may appear in the current recession (7)

Remain perfectly still and go cold all over (6) Father gets through one daily (5)

Gout’s disrupting one’s zest for life (5)

One politician showing mischievous spirit (3)

External (7)

Lively enjoyment (4,5) Swift (5)

North European country (6) Dig up (7) Sheltered side (3)

Type of team race (5) A game bird (9) Eyeglass (7) Accelerate (5,2) Strange item (6) Award for bravery (5) Roman goddess of love (5) Sudden bout (3)