Two-in-One Cryptic and Definition

No 4,403

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

7 Reluctant in the Civil Service to produce materials (6) 8 Mineral − definite quantities of it, we hear (6)

10 First or second, maybe? That will produce a row in the viva voce (7) 11 Breakfast for Sir Francis (5)

12 Cattle well turned

out (4)

13 Almost cover up the

debris on the hillside (5) 17 Pennsylvania has changed the governor (5)

18 Fur coats, one hears, for the spiteful female (4)

22 Make amends soon

after midnight? (5) 23 He takes flight from Yugoslavia to Russia (7)

24 Confection that’s doubly good in Paris (6)

25 About charitable gifts

for sovereign states (6)

DOWN

1 Give the reason for a census, by the sound of it (7) 2 Splendid time for popular greeting (4,3) 3 Object to night shift! (5)

4 A slipper from which one drinks! (7) 5 One drilling tool

− or two (5)

6 Ring on a girdle − it’s good to breathe in! (5) 9 He’s a fool to obstruct the principal (9)

14 One seaman colleague and many more (7)

15 Firearms belonging to one of Falstaff’s followers? (7)

16 Without stopping to put your thoughts into words (7)

19 Taxi near the man

who owns it (5)

20 Discovered nothing in

the kitty (5)

21 Determined the dimensions and applied adhesive (5)

SIMPLE CLUES ACROSS

7 Tell (6)

8 Droll (6)

10 Scorn (7)

11 Pretence (5)

12 Talk (4)

13 Desert (5)

17 Circumference (5) 18 Not

accompanied (4) 22 Faithful (5)

23 Burdensome (7) 24Servile (6)

25 Moody (6)

DOWN

1 Fruit (7)

2 Heavenly (7)

3 Deviate (5)

4 Plethora (7)

5 Polite (5)

6 Affirm (5)

9 Beginning (9) 14 Hoodwink (7) 15 Eye-glass (7) 16 Assent (7)

19 Fat (5) 20Mendacious (5) 21 Disprove (5)