GENERAL CROSSWORD

Across

1. Get in the way of progress (6) 4. Distinctive speech expressions (6) 9. Fortune-telling card pack (5) 10. Extra-marital relations (7)

11. A wild fancy (7)

13. Heating device; volcano (4) 15. Things needed in recipe (11) 18. Eager (4)

20. Gets (7) 22. Hard-hearted (7)

23. Game like brag (5)

24. To hate (6)

25. Show, lay bare (6)

Down

1. Whole (6)

2. Breed of cat (7)

3. Point on small I (3)

5. Other than (9)

6. Pungent bulb (5)

7. Fair, middling (2-2) 8. Harassing of opponent (3-3-5) 12. Full of mistakes (9) 14. Long-eared equine (3) 15. Writing, printing fluid (3) 16. Sparkle like a star (7)

17. Of the stars (6)

19. Striking effect (5)

21. Missile; drive before the wind (4) 23. Book of church rules (3)

Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Hectic 5. Recipe 8. Ale 9. Tendon 10. Videos 11. Zinc 13. Inventor 14. Agate 15. Smith 19. Pentagon 21. Duty 22. Trance 23. Intend 25. Eon 26. Braces 27. Tin Pan Down 2. Evening 3. Tod 4. Candid 5. Revive 6. Code-named 7. Photo 12. Catatonic 16. Titania 17. Agrees 18. Anoint 20. Error 24. Ton