CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Eat rapidly (5) 7 Immediately (5,3) 8 Warehouse (5) 10 One who carries a coffin (10) 12 Profitable (8) 14 Neat (4) 16 Pretend to sing (4) 17 Matchless (8) 20 Tough, shrewd (4-6) 23 Group of nine (5) 24 Insinuation (8) 25 Prepared (5)

DOWN

1 Rider’s seat (6) 2 Failure (4) 3 Watch face (4) 4 Woolly mammal (5) 5 Thing requiring little mental effort (2-7) 6 Disturbance in a public place (6) 9 Forbidden (5) 11 Aboriginal instrument (9) 13 Decorate (a cake) (3) 15 Clean feathers (5) 16 Angora (6) 18 Soldier on guard (6) 19 One who steals (5) 21 Assistant (4) 22 Curved roof (4)