CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

EASY MEDIUM HARD ACROSS

1. Young horse’s hoof comes down on soft-leafed plant (9)

5. In short, a place to get a drink (3)

7. Is enthusiastic about a preposition (4)

8. Ross, avid to supply counsellors (8)

10. Likeness to part trio might assume (8)

11. It’s a bit early in the day for a poet (4)

13. Settles permanent provision on son we’d turned out (6)

15. The race for one’s working life to date (6)

18. First beer reaches the edge and will almost overflow (4)

19. Ends wild disorder and gets cheated (8)

22. Infant sponsored by gold I’d distributed round church (8)

23. Being healthy, will soundly call from a distance (4)

24. This, to itself, is seen to be in agreement (3)

25. Is introduced by a gift to the editor (9)

DOWN

1. Peril PC gets into may make him lame (7)

2. A more recent way to alter it (5)

3. Order one to adorn it this way (6)

4. Shadow the stem of a note (4)

5. It may help one forward to advertise it (7)

6. A nib’s taken out to wash in it (5)

9. Warning sound will increase by end of April (5)

12. Hurts one to be at them, taking assiduous care (5)

14. Created lewd din that will gradually die away (7)

16. Paint and add reel to it (3,4)

17. Maximum number of strokes one will get twice a day (6)

18. It can produce a call for a long, slender bead (5)

20. The smallest amount that may turn stale (5)

21. Craft is part British, I perceive (4) MONDAY’S SOLUTION Across: MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 7. Reveal 8. Zenith 10. Lurched 11. Hippo 12. Eyed 13. Heart

17. Costs 18. Moor 22. Knoll 23. Spartan 24. Wobbly 25. Dry run Down: 1. Grilled 2. Oversee 3. Paths 4. Zephyrs 5. Lippy 6. Throw

9. Advertise 14. Worldly 15. Couture 16. Pruning 19. Skews 20. Hobby

21. Parry

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS