CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

2019-07-10 -

ACROSS

1. Tumult will almost arrive with the movement (9)

5. The local back-up given to borough leader (3)

7. It is nearly endless, the period of darkness (4)

8. Determine worth of leave at university perhaps (8)

10. It is tempting, in making gin etc like this (8)

11. Small ship that would sound like a dog (4)

13. How to use my pole to take on staff (6)

15. A sober turn taken by the wind (6)

18. Letter from the futhork appears right to a French female (4)

19. Sort of Chinese orange (8)

22. How quietly a couple are turned into common people (8)

23. It cuts into the bread zestfully (4)

24. Will not be able to remember one’s lines without alcohol (3)

25. Like a dove beloved of Harlequin (9)

DOWN

1. Once disturbed about an archdeacon, call a meeting (7)

2. Power, and main strength used to the utmost (5)

3. Make something new at home and allow it to escape (6)

4. No legal force turns up in Whitehall unnecessarily (4)

5. At getting in a location, be conciliatory (7)

6. Slow down, one is told, on holiday (5)

9. Croat put out by one in cast (5)

12. Verbose way to do wry version of it (5)

14. Pony pal turned out in full array (7)

16. How heartfelt is recent incomplete change? (7)

17. First criminal to come clean about it may cross it off (6)

18. As quick as pair can make it on then day (5)

20. More than one line in circle of air I’d composed (5)

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Across: 7. Lethargically 8. Scavenge 9. Ease 10. Snares 12. Asylum

14. Hit 15. Assume 17. Embeds 19. Menu 21. Toddlers

23. Temperamental

Down: 1. Descends 2. Shiver 3. Grin 4. Liberate 5. Lately 6. Ales

11. Shelters 13. Under way 16. Usurps 18. Belong 20. Ever 22. Damp

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS