CROSSWORD

Across

1 Benefit a few and suffer for it (5)

4 Cursed, having spilt the salt in bed (7)

8 Rubbish put round the hill (3) 9 Its ups and downs may be studied by the pilot (4,5)

10 I join two hundred in a game that’s played (7)

11 Money belt (5)

13 Given support or cast out (6) 15 Shy and put out when spots appear (6)

18 A way always short and direct (5)

19 Officer’s responsibility given to the men (7)

21 A dog hunts? This sort does (9)

23 Note Eastern animal (3) 24 Apparently an off-day for twelve (7)

25 For those not wishing to take flight (5)

Down

1 A support thus put up is appropriate (7)

2 Take choir in a new version of what may follow ‘Jerusalem’ (9) 3 Much attached to a game of chance (5)

4 A scoundrel not worth bidding for (3,3)

5 A stiff examination (7) 6 Check the night-flier has turned up (3)

7 Anxiety shown by redhead coming in late (5)

12 Foe had run into unprecedented difficulty (7-2)

14 Had tree replaced, safe from lightning (7)

16 A send-up on board produced melancholy (7)

17 Busy tenant (6)

18 It’s South Africa in the sun for her (5)

20 A sitter, for example (5) 22 An attempt in the past (3)