Dual Crossword

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 The half ticket goes to

dad, how sad! (8) 5 Dressed up like many

an advert (4)

8 One dashed out of the

downpour (4)

9 Many shout wildly,

also (8)

10 Famously perhaps, but

not well (7)

12 That of a soldier busy holding the beachhead? (5) 13 Merely a letter to

make a suggestion (6) 15 They all have their day

on Nov 1 (6)

17 Try, though losing

heart may be easy (5) 18 Though exhausted, served as a houseworker! (4,3)

22 Resort where good French is about right (8) 23 Nothing, darling (4) 24 When dawn breaks, it

may be magic! (4) 25 Being statuesque, could Pete’s lad be put on one? (8)

DOWN

1 Of the two of the m only father may be stern! (7)

2 Maybe it isn’t an

infection? (5)

3 All to give a child a

name (5)

4 Duck into bed with a

bird (4)

6 Pressurises or intimidates an underfed offspring (5,2) 7 Old boy who’s generous with the sugar (5) 11 The man with

the can (5) 12 One thinks it’s a shower at Beachy Head (5) 14 It may be impossible not to hit the one ahead! (7)

16 Like a painting style that breaks RA rules (7)

17 Part of the body, possibly the bowel (5) 19 Admitted it’s possible to do wrong about various points (5) 20 Keep up aloft somehow (5)

21 What Christopher has

to give up (4)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Pitiable (8)

5 Attired (4) 8 Downpour (4)

9 Ten hundreds (8) 10 Remarkably (7)

12 Fur helmet (5) 13 Easily (6) 15 Canonised persons (6) 17 Composition (5) 18 Exhausted (4,3) 22 S coast resort (8) 23 Affection (4) 24 Stick, baton (4) 25 Plinth (8)

DOWN

1 Mum and dad (7) 2 Slight contamination

(5)

3 Sum (5)

4 Waterfowl (4)

6 Is propped up by (5,2) 7 — longlegs (5) 11 Male goat (5) 12 Intellect (5)

14 Errand (7) 16 Dreamlike (7)

17 Arm joint (5) 19 Possessed (5)

20 Drift (5)

21 Halt (4)