CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Senior students, perhaps, may be aristocratic (4-5)

5. Scott’s Roy would take something from one (3)

7. Being mean, one loses head – and arm, almost (4)

8. If Vestal is so disposed there may be a joyous celebration (8)

10. One for the monarchy Tory could sail with (8)

11. Be acquainted with a ski centre at present (4)

13. Managed not to meet the party, dog having lost heart to editor (6)

15. Supplies needs of the Queen among spiteful people (6)

18. Promising to look like Ena Harkess? (4)

19. Introduction made before blame can be attributed to it (8)

22. Where to walk with the infantry on the way (8)

23. It is profound, but is done on leaving the East quietly (4)

24. A girl men would first lose their head to follow (3)

25. Need us to gain the 3Rs in order to yield to it (9)

DOWN

1. The number of an old English county in part (7)

2. Unexpected profit made by the elegy poet, around five (5)

3. Is reluctant to give poetry a start (6)

4. Parts of match one devises questions for in examination (4)

5. What’s coming in that is concerned with the meeting-place (7)

6. It is not as high as the Spanish in an obeisance (5)

9. It’s hardly a comedown for the French in the collection (5)

12. Cold dish for a youngster from Cape Town (5)

14. I’d turned up with wrong body of sheriff’s men to get rid of (7)

16. One who is off may have the rail to support (7)

17. Trace out the right part of a volcano (6)

18. Trumps the appropriate neckwear for Elizabethans? (5)

20. It will curve round the end of the bowl and mix in smoothly (5)

21. Piece of music means nothing to a Manx cat (4)

MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Decorate 7. Clear 8. Certain 9. Diagram 10. Drip

12. Nervous 14. Callous 17. Stay 18. Example 21. Neutron

22. Timer 23. Charcoal

Down: 1. Decade 2. Carnival 3. Real 4. Tendon 5. Dear 6. Primus

7. Chagrin 11. Prosper 13. Oratorio 14. Create 15. Stench

16. Hymnal 19. Army 20. Burr All puzzles ©

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Across: 1. Peak 3. Consider 9. Noisier 10. Onset 11. Conscription

14. End 16. Upset 17. Duo 18. Battle of wits 21. Curio 22. Special

23. Enmeshed 24. Imps

Down: 1. Panicked 2. Align 4. Oar 5. Short-staffed 6. Discord 7. Rots

8. Discourteous 12. Issue 13. Consults 15. Diagram 19. Idiom 20. Acre

22. See

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS