CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

7. Greek island (6)

8. Go away! (6)

10. Director (7)

11. Discovered (5)

12. Looked at warily (4)

13. Quotes (5)

17. Young male horses (5)

18. Buddhist priest (4)

22. The ---, cricket trophy (5)

23. Patterned with small squares (7)

24. Part of a diocese (6)

25. Item of photographic equipment (6)

Down

1. Neatened by cutting (7)

2. Serving table (7)

3. Rule (5)

4. Release (3,4)

5. Additional payment (5)

6. Remits (5)

9. Truce (9)

14. Most slack (7)

15. Challenges (7)

16. Cutting tool (7)

19. Complains (5)

20. Acute (5)

21. Exclude (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. Imperial statesman located in the Aegean Sea (6)

8. Request an individual to make himself scarce (6)

10. A German director is displaced (7)

11. Came across nothing in the kitty (5)

12. See 20 Down

13. Quotes one in a strange sect (5)

17. They're used for shooting horses (5)

18. The French master is an eminent Buddhist (4)

22. The remains of a vessel implanted with high explosive (5)

23. Verified the description of a kilt (7)

24. Region of the town that provides a capital start to the holiday (6)

25. I will leave America upset by shooting equipment (6)

Down

1. Made cuts in mid-term arrangement (7)

2. Deliver a riposte and trounce disastrously (7)

3. The head of the governors is in control as a rule (5)

4. Group not charged – allowed to leave (3,4)

5. The first of the brokers has responsibility for extra dividend (5) 6. Dispatches to southern termini (5)

9. It's a crime to break the cease-fire (9)

14. Most licentious – so stole without restraint (7)

15. Gets down to the job, as the footballer does (7)

16. The gang spotted a cutting implement (7)

19. Finds fault with vehicles going round the park (5)

20 and 12Ac. Having keen pupils (5-4)

21. Prevent access of French licensed premises (5)