CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

23/10

ACROSS

1. Portly couple may be about right, and not heartless (9)

5. She’s a pig to be planting seeds by the look of her (3)

7. Rascal sounds as if he has this place in church (4)

8. Standing in people’s minds, grips tee in such a way (8)

10. Revolt on horseback is on the increase (8)

11. Thin strip of wood is not enough to put on the roof (4)

13. Make one remember the right to create it with denim (6)

15. To ply the needle may be painful to one on the run (6)

18. Financial institution is marginal to the river (4)

19. German of about fifty one might thus shirk duty (8)

22. If suffocating, could fit it back in arm support (8)

23. Go one behind the other to put the papers away (4)

24. Sister of the tussock moth (3)

25. They’re out for plunder in rare Dumas composition (9)

DOWN

1. Get the better of an inedible chestnut, one is told (7)

2. Test, say, water that moves (5)

3. Message one is sent on will go wrong at conjunction (6)

4. It is a job to force the troops to do it (4)

5. Pan for cooking the game bag in collection (7)

6. Grain the West produces with passion (5)

9. Taking advantage of one in distribution of guns (5)

12. Take everything off but the garb to play in (5)

14. Great house is shown up in the Lescaut opera (7)

16. Join it up to work as he’s upset about the Navy (7)

17. Way in which one ran men out (6)

18. Ban is lifted inside so that one can wash in it (5)

20. External appearance is noticeable among half those invited (5)

21. It shuts up, but may be calm about it (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

Down: