CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES Across

7. Whole (6) 8. Of mail (6) 10. Large outdoor burning (7) 11. Card suit (5) 12. Manner of walking (4) 13. Intone (5) 17. Clock pointers (5) 18. Girl's name (4) 22. Noise (5) 23. Concerned with one's own interest (7) 24. Seaside town (6) 25. Clandestine (6)

Down

1. Vegetation (7) 2. Replacement (5-2) 3. Mode of transport (5) 4. Compelling (7) 5. Plump (5) 6. Meat (5) 9. Member of a Christian denomination (9) 14. Sets of steps (7) 15. Duplicators (7) 16. Official seals (7) 19. Money-lending (5) 20. Throb (5) 21. Passageway (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. Part of the document I returned complete (6) 8. Plato's translation describing a corresponding service (6) 10. No fibre needed for this blazer (7) 11. A suit indispensable to the golfer (5) 12. A way of walking to the entrance, we hear (4) 13. A noted part of the service (5) 17. Deck labourers found in Portsmouth and Southampton (5) 18 . A girl with regular complaints, one hears (4) 22. It's healthy to do some plumbing (5) 23. It's not altruistic to market sea-food, by the sound of it (7) 24. About the kind of place people like to frequent (6) 25. Religious education in a denomination is arcane (6)

Down

1. Receptacle in this place for vegetable matter (7) 2. Understudy almost on his feet (5-2) 3. A number of coaches provide instruction (5) 4. Using coercive methods in the nursery (7) 5. Robust porter (5) 6. Meat taken from the shelf (5) 9. The way it's transformed by a Christian (9) 14. Defects in the hose used by firemen (7) 15. So price fluctuates for duplicators (7) 16. Seals a hiding-place near back-street (7) 19. A practice that attracts unusual interest (5) 20. What the doctor takes for leguminous food (5) 21. A piercing scream coming up the narrow lane (5)