CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

7. Principles (6)

8. Steal (cattle) (6) 10. Line dividing north and south (7)

11. Number (5)

12. Girdle (4)

13. Clever (5)

17. Cabin (5)

18. Ostrich-like bird (4) 22. Tardier (5)

23. Crime (7)

24. Send back (6)

25. Trafficker (6)

Down

1. Illness (7)

2. Ask (7)

3. Fabric (5)

4. Rear (7)

5. Austere (5) 6. Indulge (5) 9. Burning (9) 14. Direction (7) 15. Coarse gravel (7) 16. Rushes uncontrolled (7) 19. Startle (5)

20. Mark (5) 21. Following (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. 8. Naughty dream Take stock of ladies (6) (6) men

10. People who live near it

have little latitude (7)

11. Not desirable company,

it's said (5)

12. Point to a tree from the

window (4)

13. Quick turn round in

public transport (5)

17. A place to be occupied

in the Albert Hall (5)

18. Animal found in an

overhead position (4)

22. Alter round

afterwards (5)

23. People will be annoyed

to be given it (7)

24. A trying delay (6)

25. Merchant who gives

players a hand (6)

Down

1. Medical seaside resort problem (7) for a

2. Petition from Queer

Street (7)

3. Clerical material (5)

4. Run true to form in

training (7)

5. Rear to be ruthless (5)

6. Riotous spree in which

the bar is overturned (5)

9. A burning romance

somehow holds it up (9)

14. Carriage axle bush for

instance (7)

15. Hair style peculiarly

English (7)

16. Rushes to find

vocations (7)

19. A left arm which may

be raised (5)

20. Pound postage (5)

21. Partly deaf, terribly

behind (5)