crossword
A prize of £15 in book tokens will be awarded for the first correct solution opened. Solutions must reach Crossword No 4500, Country Life, Pinehurst II, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7BF, by
Tuesday, October 17. UK entrants only. ACROSS 1 Priest providing girl with means
of transport? (5) 8 Beryl, possibly, initially acting
in role of sailor (10) 9 Daughter opening gates in new
farm (8) 10 Heeled over, like some old
buildings! (6) 11 game or insect found in Paris?
(6, 7) 14 erratic method used by protégé
(7) 16 Awkward agent crossing harbour from the east (7) 18 Rank this copper’s in, perhaps?
(13) 21 grab cabbage duke’s left (6) 22 Fellow mostly tipsy around
dusk (8) 24 Finance minister’s random
rollover (10) 25 Like some beaches in Cleethorpes and Yarmouth (5) DOWN 1 nineteenth-century fellow
supporting winner (9) 2 Youngster on a Caribbean
island (4) 3 Healthy food—something served
at Burlington House? (6) 4 in outskirts of Salisbury, one
pushing for operation (7) 5 One politician allowed to be
understood (8) 6 Wealthy rightful duke going to
America (10) 7 Park keeper loses head, showing
extreme displeasure (5) 12 Directions to glen, perhaps,
and part of America (3, 7) 13 Spanish leaders properly full
of vitality (9) 15 One who provides news about
beer? (8) 17 Sink where coal may be kept? (7) 19 Rosie’s unusual material for
making baskets (6) 20 Parasitic larva overrunning
Henry’s Scottish hut (5) 23 Company invested in fashionable church painting (4)