Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Behaviour that’s prohibited this month
around the church (6)
4 Securely encloses swimmers at college
(5, 2)
9 European has to stop circling the Pole
(7)
10 Regular outfit (7)
11 Throwing up going round lake, yet it’s
smooth (5)
12 Tot in steamengine finds poisonous
snake (45)
13 Purser is staggered by a lot of money,
an unexpected gift? (8, 6)
15 Taking temporary charge, speaking out
endlessly about article (7, 3, 4)
19 Place bespattered with sour
consomm´e (5, 4)
21 Tree, always sheltering Lord (5) 22 Sarah returned, with discretion, final
part of play (4, 3)
23 Overturn what’s big for a conceited
batsman? (7)
24 Gets absorbed in a place of vice and
immorality (5, 2)
25 Loses novelty, presenting society
stories (6)
DOWN
1 Potentially finest haunt (6) 2 Uninterrupted study, until a break (9) 3 Rob with a gun, getting drink without
credit (5, 2)
4 Evade answering the rugger forwards and prepare to make a new deal
(7, 3, 4)
5 A Liberal and a scholar, he opened a
treasure cave (3, 4)
6 Rebuke a nagging woman (5)
7 Sweet kind of cake, having unusual
form, eaten by pussy? (7)
8 Making lofted shots and not gaining
weight in Oxfordshire (8, 6) 14 Check, we hear, something boring —
training in crossing the road (45) 15 Laborious writers about the French,
they rise in anger (7)
16 Raids in an Aegean Island, d’you say?
(7)
17 Bound to be shown in suitable sleazy
cinemas? (43)
18 Speculation rising round about, causing
feeling of horror (6)
20 German town making some exiles
sentimental (5)