CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Lobster sauté, long in preparation (9)

5. Morse hasn’t finished the fish (3) 7. Schoolboy’s warning of appearance of cliff hollow (4) 8. It is an example of the grip Adam might have had (8) 10. In Arden, see how to sing under a lady’s window (8) 11. A lateral branch one will endlessly reject (4)

13. Bar is also put out on the end of it (6) 15. Personal attractions do damage in the Civil Service (6) 18. Horse will attempt to unseat its rider for a dollar (4) 19. Credit may be consumed, as may be believed (8) 22. Property right for American fur cut out (8)

23. A wounding remark as to a racing breed of horse (4) 24. Garden tool he has nothing to do with (3) 25. Appropriate tip? Tenner, maybe (9)

DOWN

1. Cut loss perhaps caused by plague insects (7)

2. At no time is it to be repeated on hire purchase (5) 3. Tristram brought to book for a mixed drink (6) 4. Stylish dash seen among the landowners (4)

5. Like one tackling a hedge with a tea-ship (7) 6. Object if one’s not completely modest (5)

9. Go prying about with the poison one had left (5) 12. Is being out of the sun disreputable? (5)

14. Give one a stern reproof in a professor’s discourse (7) 16. It is her best recipe for a fizzy drink (7)

17. He sells food, ergo, credit must be arranged (6) 18. Change colour like the first lady in the wild (5) 20. Shoot away at the mark on the horse’s face (5) 21. In which bird can store what is gathered in (4)