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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Trim a tree (6)

4 Ace lot’s unusual find (6)

7 Absent from a course (4)

8 Best musical instruments for highest-ranking officers (3,5)

9 Fruit selections found by the ring (7)

12 Understand witness (3)

14 Dismount with a lamp (6)

15 Money found with medal (6)

16 Barrel for the King’s Head, for example (3)

18 Footballer refusing to work? (7)

22 Frozen confection I ate with crew, perhaps (5,3)

23 Sweet for a lot of money (4)

24 Walk in street with official list (6) 25 Attempt to get hold of object that’s fashionable (6)

DOWN

1 Short lecture leading to light conversation (5,4)

2 Singer on a broadcast thinking logically (9)

3 Scoffed, hearing public school (5)

4 Slip in the interval (5)

5 Short royal in trim (4)

6 Flavour a small portion (5)

10 Accounts about the man with pains (5)

11 Glue for staff (5)

12 Old coin showing ruler (9)

13 Ten relays organised in a DOWN:

serious manner (9)

17 Former law, to be precise (5)

19 Machinist willingly using a woven fabric (5)

20 Fashionable pet unexpectedly awkward (5)

21 Ban animal doctor with oxygen (4)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Smart (6)

4 Find (6)

7 On holiday (4)

8 Highest-ranking officials (3,5)

9 Citrus fruit (7)

12 Catch sight of (3)

14 On fire (6)

1 Packages, 5 Land, 8 Rail, 9 Allergic, 10 Hearsay, 12 Press,

13 Dearly, 15 Missus, 17 Bucks, 18 Steeple, 22 Aviation, 23 Soap, 24 Seem,

25 Contests.

1 Parched, 2 China, 3 Ghana, 4 Salt, 6 Algiers, 7 Docks, 11 Silks,

12 Poise, 14 Ascribe, 16 Steppes, 17 Brass, 19 Tenon, 20 Pools, 21 Disc.

15 Precious metal (6)

16 Small cask (3)

18 Attacking footballer (7)

22 Sorbet (5,3)

23 Place where money is coined (4)

24 Saunter (6)

25 Fashionable (6)

DOWN

1 Trifling conversation (5,4)

2 Logic (9)

3 Dined (5)

4 Slight error (5)

5 Rudely brief (4)

6 Sample (5)

10 Dull pains (5)

11 Rod (5)

12 Monarch (9)

13 Sincerely (9)

17 Strictly accurate (5)

19 Woven fabric (5)

20 Clumsy (5)

21 Prohibition (4)