CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 White wine (10) 8 Do away with (7) 9 Flinch (5) 10 Amount of fish caught (4) 11 Grain store (4) 12 Lav (3) 14 Expenditure (6) 15 Rubble (6) 18 Appropriate (3) 20 Bird’s beak (4) 21 Object of worship (4) 23 Reasoned thought (5) 24 Curved sword (7) 25 Number of people present (10)

DOWN

1 Lawn game (7) 2 Sour-tasting substance (4) 3 Perennial plant (6) 4 Recent arrival or participant (8) 5 Rescind (5) 6 In vogue (11) 7 Pitiless, relentless (11) 13 Meal cooked over an open fire (8) 16 Bureaucracy (3,4) 17 Calm, tranquil (6) 19 Taut (5) 22 Surprise, astound (4)