CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Mysterious company turns back to formal worship (6)

8 & 13Ac Shore bird about to make someone petrified! (4,2,5) 10 Sink a vessel carrying coal (7) 11 Used to make things go round (5)

12 She deposits gold in North America (4)

13 See 8 Ac.

17 Remove water from the arena, one hears (5)

18 Make a breach exposed to view (4)

22 Hold forth a zero assessment (5)

23 Vital change by an eastern European (7)

24 A yacht capsized in China once (6)

25 Ring again to cancel the act (6)

DOWN

1 Relatives from America in the money (7)

2 Manage to get a certain amount of paper, we hear (7) 3 Keep quiet about many showing indolence (5)

4 Trace the boundary of the playing pitch (7)

5 Join up with one military group before the end of the battle (5) 6 Lover providing a capital ring (5)

9 Guards ordered to go in the Spanish spearhead (9)

14 Learns a magazine has been rewritten (7)

15 Mischievous types converted by priests (7)

16 Any line is stupidly misplaced (7)

19 Military group to use coercion (5)

20 Pieces of a belt turned up (5) 21 Pete’s much inclined to be different (5)