Crossword

A prize of £15 in book tokens will be awarded for the first correct solution opened. Solutions must reach Crossword No 4488, Country Life, Pinehurst II, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough Business Park, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7BF, by

Tuesday, July 25. UK entrants only. ACROSS 1 Vessel on big wave, a fairground attraction (6-7) 8 A container that’s slightly

open? (4) 9 Got rid of aid created misguidedly (10) 10 Initially many in Marseille

owned such a shrub (6) 11 Family settles first for outer garment (8) 12 Month Irish town shortened athletic contest (9) 14 Close relative introducing Grieg’s first vocal piece (4) 15 Commotion following American ship? (4) 16 New tale I must inspire (9) 20 Intrude in French passenger vehicle carrying king (8) 21 Hidden in US city shelter? (6) 23 Cartoon of moggy in vehicle half in river (10) 24 Period that’s long? Not entirely (4) 25 Always finish with fit Republican bishop’s title (5, 8) DOWN 1 Exult about Irish novelist, so

to speak (7) 2 Part of popular Gounod

composition (5) 3 English trees? Nonsense (7) 4 Unusually hot shower at such

a stately home (10, 5) 5 In Sudan I’m a large creature (6) 6 Lots to do, unfortunately, protecting fungus (9) 7 Female abandons free fish? That’s staggering! (7) 13 What a sponge may be doing? Very interesting (9) 15 Fête, originally, not just amusement park (7) 17 European man welcoming rising group (7) 18 Vessel originally taking duke round most of Turkish capital (7) 19 Rock identified by graduate and old sailor (6) 22 Herb’s age, by the sound of it (5)