CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Puppet worked by strings (10) 8 Clothes worn to sleep in (7) 9 Pugilist (5) 10 Missing (4) 11 Abode of Satan (4) 12 Lettuce variety (3) 14 Prairie wolf (6) 15 Creed (6) 18 Pitch (3) 20 Earth’s satellite (4) 21 Genuine (4) 23 At the right moment (2,3) 24 Medium (7) 25 Evaluation, estimation (10)

DOWN

1 Stateliness or grandeur (7) 2 Frolic (4) 3 Shellfish (6) 4 Encourage (8) 5 Poisonous (5) 6 Concentrated effort (11) 7 Disappointed, disheartened (11) 13 Rush of animals (8) 16 Imprecise (7) 17 Wanderers (6) 19 Speed contests (5) 22 DNA unit (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror