CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Tell one off for making salesman turn over (7)

5. Cap that may be re-entered in a wager (5)

8. Gentle chorus-leader suffering from lack of attention (7)

9. It is all right, within a number, to serve as a symbol (5)

10. He was with the makeover as a cover-up job (9)

12. It is owing to a piece for two not being completed (3)

13. Found a musician parking in the jetty (5)

17. Bath to put by if one’s somewhat fat (3)

19. CID used Otago University to show it will be dropping leaves (9)

21. The rounded part will make one better when about five (5)

22. Flight operator may lie, rain affecting it (7)

24. In the street there’s a little Scottish pudding (5)

25. The Navy means to change one’s good behaviour (7)

DOWN

1. Fame the last three children will confess to achieving (6)

2. Is quietly inciting one to be scoring at cribbage (7)

3. To be in debt is to have nothing, you and I conclude (3)

4. Something more that’s taken out of context rather (5)

5. Having slain the red cub as it turned (9)

6. Is inclined to have worked in the garden (5)

7. Having no hydrogen, contemplative person becomes a potmender (6)

11. It is advisable to have a contrivance such as this (9)

14. Swear one will have half a mind to put it in writing (7)

15. Has in store something that was designed for punishment (6)

16. Estimate the value of donkeys to leading stockman (6)

18. Push one’s way through to a canal-boat (5)

20. A spell one may find hanging from a bracelet (5)

23. Be fast, unless it’s a colour that will do so (3)