GENERAL CROSSWORD

Across

1. Peak, acme (6)

4. Male goose (6)

9. Unwell (3)

10. Doubting (9)

11. Wash soap out (5)

12. Boarding schoolboy's food container (4,3)

14. Baton round (7,6)

17. Shape anew (7)

18. Stretch of ground (5) 20. Catalytic ________, device removing exhaust impurities (9) 22. Fish (3)

23. Paper fastener (6)

24. Horrid, offensive (6)

Down

1. Foot-iron (7)

2. Edible gourd (5)

3. Closely examined (9)

5. Perform (3)

6. Unit of sound measurement (7) 7. Take it easy (5)

8. Make expressive arm movements (11) 13. Untidy, in a mess (9) 15. Pungent compound (7) 16. In _______ : ragged (7) 17. Boulders (5)

19. Spanish friend (5)

21. Old cloth measure (3)

Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Toffee 4. Lava 8. Incarcerate 10. Regal 11. Kit 12. Amnesia 14. Lie 16. Nab 18. Seethes 19. Mat 20. Piste 23. Spasmodical 24. Yeti 25. Ascend Down 1. Tumbrel 2. Fling 3. Escalate 5. Amen 6. Alaskan 7. Felt 9. Roundhead 13. Suspects 15. Estuary 17. Blessed 19. Miss 21. Salve 22. Omit