CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Do well to come into another’s place (7)

5. It will bob on the surface or aloft perhaps (5)

8. It makes one forget name as one turns to it (7)

9. Sort of music that can go hang (5)

10. Bread can be used around the North like a schottische in US (4,5)

12. What retiarius used in one tournament (3)

13. Attractive personality may depend on a bracelet (5)

17. One s end comes at one in the morning (3)

19. Restore friendship once relic of it can be patched up (9)

21. It’s the utmost it can achieve after limo fails to finish (5)

22. A biscuit, if pulled, may reveal a motto (7)

24. Running rate was set as one walked up and down (5)

25. Beg one to put out the rent and take dinner (7)

DOWN

1. Mean-looking baby wriggling after a call for silence (6)

2. Such is the nervous system that is dominant (7)

3. An entity that leaves the West out of the news (3)

4. Take off the water provided by Indra (5)

5. He may angle for her if man’s put out (9)

6. It may be spring, getting on when no one turns up (5)

7. Garment that is enough to make a TT sigh (6)

11. Having medals created, do a turn (9)

14. It will just flow for the clerk it replaced (7)

15. How one may be said to hit the beer (6)

16. Nose about in a coffer, returning a part (6)

18. Copy one with carbon I’m twice turning up (5)

20. Secret store of clubs each can turn to (5)

23. Painting starts as Renaissance tradition (3)

MONDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 7. Afraid 8. Deride 10. Deplete 11. Theme 12. Cues 13. Muted

17. Maybe 18. Cane 22. Trait 23. Seconds 24. Regret 25. Fresco Down: 1. Paddock 2. Prophet 3. Dicey 4. Neither 5. Lives 6. Jewel

9. Refurbish 14. Battled 15. Madness 16. Tension 19. Stare 20. Range

21. Scorn

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS