CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Act of refraining or abstaining (10) 8 Calm, pacify (7) 9 Fortunate (5) 10 Receive money for work (4) 11 Knock senseless (4) 12 Fish eggs (3) 14 Chocolate-covered pastry (6) 15 Mend one’s ways (6) 18 Unwell (3) 20 Christmas (4) 21 Jetty (4) 23 Planet (5) 24 Blow up (7) 25 Basic realities (5,5)

DOWN

1 Clothing (7) 2 Parliamentary constituency (4) 3 Happenings (6) 4 Gifted (8) 5 Academy Award (5) 6 Pretend (4-7) 7 Very large self-service store (11) 13 Keyboard players (8) 16 Foreboding evil (7) 17 Polite, respectable (6) 19 Large passenger ship (5) 22 Heroic (4)

Solutions in tomorrow’s Daily Mirror