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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS
1 Mother has to assume it’s old and elephantine (8)
5 Drink the sailor’s left (4)
8 It’s burnt black (4)
9 This relates religiously to a girl’s half ticket (8)
10 Time to do the ironing? (7)
12 One not very clever at bridge? (5)
13 It’s hurled around in fencing! (6)
15 That of a London smith? (6)
17 Confess you cannot be exclusive? (5)
18 Are they almost unnecessary for knitting? (7)
22 Hanging up so as to make a phone call to a seaside place (8)
23 Gain a grand from a flying member (4)
24 Revealing everything at one sitting? (4)
25 Looked far from unappreciative when forced to note an agreement (4,4)
DOWN
1 Raincoated girl in a play (7)
2 Look aghast at the new rates? (5)
3 He shows the sheer fiendishness of my French (5)
4 One drink too many for one so young (4)
6 Choose one for mother, the best possible (7)
7 Like a sharp nail, rather nasty (5)
11 On which landing is
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: ACROSS:
allowed? (5)
12 Naval hero, a flier (5)
14 Relatively detached? (7)
16 Packs up working with singers (7)
17 Pale as a bird (5)
19 Went crabbily to show that a bad deed is just about good! (5)
20 Ordinary people of Italy (5)
21 As entertainment, perhaps a bit flimsy? (4)
QUICK CLUES ACROSS
1 Extinct elephant (8)
5 Harbour (4)
8 Fuel (4)
1 Spruce, 4 Locate, 7 Away, 8 Top brass, 9 Oranges, 12 See,
14 Alight, 15 Silver, 16 Keg, 18 Striker, 22 Water ice, 23 Mint, 24 Stroll,
25 Trendy.
1 Small talk, 2 Reasoning, 3 Eaten, 4 Lapse, 5 Curt, 6 Taste, 10 Aches,
11 Stick, 12 Sovereign, 13 Earnestly, 17 Exact, 19 Twill, 20 Inept, 21 Veto.
DOWN:
9 Of monks (8)
10 Time of day (7)
12 Imitation (5)
13 Race obstacle (6)
15 Beat heavily (6)
17 Let in (5)
18 Sewing implements (7)
22 Hanging aloft (8)
23 Aircraft part (4)
24 Naked (4)
25 Ogled (4,4) DOWN
1 Shakespeare play (7)
2 Gaze (5)
3 Devil (5)
4 Number (4)
6 Best (7)
7 Slightly sticky (5)
11 Water-girt land (5)
12 Male duck (5)
14 Taken away (7)
16 Gives up (7)
17 Pallid (5)
19 Sidled (5)
20 Not the clergy (5)
21 Movie (4)