TAKE A BREAK
CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS
1 Talking point one in best
clubs (5)
4 Drunken peril holding tin
containing this? (7) 8 Aussie native behind
tailless bird (7)
9 Money from poor holding
on (5)
10 Yeoman’s ale containing
iron consumed (9)
11 Long time taken in
Manchester again (3) 12 Brides upset in broken bits
(6)
14 Pass light over empty stage
(6) 17 One breaking record for
insolence? (3) 19 Parliamentary duties: such
chores! (9)
22 Grand accommodation for
new union member (5) 23 Rubbish sack taken into
French station (7) 24 Recount appalling defeat
(7)
25 Free trade: put your foot
down (5)
DOWN
1 Pound taken in Hanworth
robbery (5)
2 Saw dog in empty pub (7) 3 Copper to restrain goodlooker (5) 4 Blackbeard puts rodent in
baked dish (6) 5 Broad-minded politician?
(7)
6 Terribly nice English family
member (5)
7 Excellent goddess inspiring
one to shine (7) 12 Happiness to make things
darker? (7)
13 At home hard university
man becomes brutal (7) 15 Blasphemous academic an
eye-opener (7)
16 To bribe with pound note is
blunder (6)
18 Petty Officer keeps
burning picture (5) 20 White bird, say tailless tern
ascending (5)
21 Said to require massage (5)
COFFEE TIME ACROSS
1 Theme or issue (5) 4 Czech beer (7)
8 Male fowl (7)
9 Loaf (5)
10 Tower official (9) 11 Epoch (3)
12 Scattered rubbish (6) 14 Go by (6)
17 Mouth part (3) 19 Cleaning and dusting (9) 22 Stable worker (5) 23 Domestic waste (7) 24 Soundly thrash (7) 25 Tyre pattern (5)
DOWN
1 Pulsate (5) 2 Maxim (7) 3 Adorable person (5) 4 Sea criminal (6) 5 Tolerant (7) 6 Female relation (5) 7 Emit (light) (7) 12 Great pleasure (7) 13 Cruel or barbaric (7) 15 Irreverent (7) 16 Botch (6) 18 Snapshot (5) 20 Marsh wader (5) 21 Work dough (5)