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CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS 1 Beneficial, like jam (8)

5 Aim for success in soccer (4) 8 It hurts if you miss it and hit

it (4)

9 Impending tin mine disaster

outside Minehead (8) 10 Knock the dodgy gin in

taverns! (7)

12 Teach to draw? (5)

13 Explain something a bit fishy

in the river (6)

15 Move fast in a band (6) 17 Beetle-like vehicle? (5) 18 Write notes for players (7) 22 Formal arrangement rehearsed for a TV part? (3,5)

23 Indian tool? (4)

24 A bit sprightly, we hear (4) 25 Communications in a

muddle for a long time (8)

DOWN

1 Imagined to be a winner? (7) 2 In a noun, perhaps, one

forms a conjunction (5) 3 Chuck, having a good

time? (5)

4 When weak, you can use

a meal (4)

6 Work in the theatre? (7) 7 Tongue in gelatine (5) 11 Grandma as nurse? (5)

12 Kid me up it’s something

symbolic (5)

14 Spitfire type? Belligerent

anyway (7)

16 In cricket or football, they

hold their place (7) 17 Transport a bighead

employs? (5)

19 So men can take them

to be indications (5) 20 Due to a duck having

to fly? (5)

21 Appear to check the

figure (4)

QUICK CLUES

ACROSS 1 Profitable (8) 5 Objective (4)

8 Fixing spike (4) 9 Impending (8) 10 Batsman’s “knock” (7) 12 Teach (5)

13 Make clear (6)

15 Run naked (6)

17 Light vehicle (5)

18 Write music (7)

22 “Free kick” situation (3,5) 23 Abrasive tool (4)

24 Lively (4)

25 Errands (8)

DOWN

1 Imagined (7) 2 Marriage (5)

3 Hurl (5)

4 Crippled (4)

6 Use functionally (7) 7 Dead language (5) 11 Female goat (5) 12 “--- pole” (5) 14 Pugilist (7)

16 Park officials (7) 17 Coaches (5) 19 Signs (5)

20 Due (5)

21 Look (4)