Daily crossword

QUICK CLUES Across

7 Writer (6)

8 Happy (6)

10 Shorten (7)

11 Daub (5)

12 Calm (4)

13 Incorrect (5)

17 Tantalise (5)

18 Sharp (4)

22 Go-between (5)

23 Gauge (7)

24 Harmony (6)

25 Famish (6)

Down

1 Competent (7)

2 Give a shock to (7)

3 Verbose (5)

4 Comply (7)

5 Tender (5)

6 Illustriousness (5)

9 Tedious (9)

14 Characteristic (7)

15 Need (7)

16 Whole number (7)

19 Heathen (5)

20 Train (5)

21 Disagreeable (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES Across

7 Rushes about and puts

you in your place (6)

8 At holiday times it may be busy or in repose

(6)

10 Go off in a bad

temper? (7)

11 Left out until rewritten

(5)

12 I was first out, but

refused to admit it (4)

13 Northern blockhouse

(5)

17 It's useless to fight (5)

18 Grain of discomfort (4)

22 Love to make an

entrance, we hear (5)

23 The only luggage that

one needs? (7)

24 Temporary shelter in which there's an occupant (6)

25 A label on the French

pieces of furniture (6)

Down

1 Use this and all's well,

presumably (4-3)

2 Beaten by a whisker

(7)

3 Demonstration by printers and photographers? (5)

4 Determined to attack

(3,4)

5 Sweet money (5)

6 Condition in which one

will live in America (5)

9 It's taught by one of

worldly knowledge (9)

14 Shows or hides (7)

15 Incompetent celebrity?

(7)

16 He breaks down in the course of an investigation (7)

19 Game requiring many

skills (5)

20 Money charged for

looking after strays (5)

21 Gather facts from a

different angle (5)