CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Nothing out of school, and a right intellectual (7)

5. Instrument is nothing more than a unit of living matter

(5)

8. Turn green, use no sulphur, and fail to follow suit (7)

9. He is relatively speaking dirty after an absence (5)

10. Is inept but, with change of rent, to the point (9)

12. Final instalments of land you purchase ought now to be paid (3)

13. Use foil to handle goods that are hot (5)

17. Remove top of basin to reveal the bird (3)

19. For shortening of sentence in Morse, is necessary to change it (9)

21. A number act on Buddhism in Japan (5)

22. Sound of laughter is about right for the sound of wood burning (7)

24. The countryman and the god he replaced (5)

25. Too much fruit’s produced around end of June (7)

DOWN

1. Fiddle poorly and one will get into trouble (6)

2. Five score for part of the county (7)

3. Fall behind with an old convict (3)

3/10

4. Old magistrate who had ruff for a mate (5)

5. Innumerable uncles to turn south (9)

6. Easily understood how I’d started with endless good fortune (5)

7. A corkscrew the first batsman might use (6)

11. It lets one suppose it could be nice and free around the North (9)

14. Behave like a star, sporting new kilt (7)

15. In what way had it turned up on an elephant’s back?

(6)

16. Turn over vine destroyed by heartless rot (6)

18. Didn’t start having glass put in, so took it easy (5)

20. Makes fun of changing smock (5)

23. Make public what one breathes (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Horse 4. Hosanna 8. Tight 9. Cresset 10. Out

11. Embezzler 12. Pant 13. Plea 18. Laundered 20. Sea

21. Embargo 22. Irene 23. Strides 24. Gusts

Down: 1. Hot gospellers 2. Righten 3. Esteem 4. Hecuba

5. Sneeze 6. Nasal 7. Actor managers 14. Listens 15. Adored

16. Brooks 17. Adding 19. Umber