CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

6/3 ACROSS

1. Fact that one will die to try mail distribution (9)

5. Extract what is essential from the channel (3)

7. It may be spring, high and low (4)

8. With advocaat and lemonade make a winter missile (8)

10. In which Robin may come clean (8)

11. Town incorporated as centre of finance (4)

13. A telling off is as much as the listener can stand (6)

15. A song that’s rotten, but has everything in it (6)

18. An expert on computers, say, must polish it up (4)

19. This may be the union for him and her (8)

22. Vibrate sympathetically when notes are jangling (8)

23. A bullet may be a nuisance to the gardener (4)

24. In the Netherlands one will score nothing (3)

25. One to cause somebody suffering with a long meat-fork (9) DOWN

1. But meal may be liable to change (7)

2. Direction-finder that can go up and down (5)

3. Not to begin dieting in order to put a match to it (6)

4. Seem bored with any confusion around (4)

5. It’s as icy as a Gallic arrangement can be (7)

6. The score, kept by shop giving goods on credit (5)

9. It is concerning an attack of ‘flu (5)

12. Ward off a writer of hymn tunes (5)

14. Act of declining the fur-seal product (7)

16. Doctor has a kind of greed for such a sprinkler (7)

17. Something taken into consideration by one trading for another (6)

18. There was a block put on such a cut of beef (5)

20. Fish that’s prepared for the table (5)

21. Rate of progress at sea, if there’s a reef (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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