CRYPTIC AND QUICKIE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

7. Still back-street

happenings (6) 8. Mend a broken

marriage? (6) 10. False claim about you and me being tuneful (7) 11. End so knotty points can be resolved (5) 12. Try to marry dunderhead in the forest (4) 13. Lames men by rearrangement (5) 17. Twenty runs

made (5) 18. Extra for the doctor again (4) 22. Very warm in the Post Office? Then snap out of it! (5) 23. Time for bringing equality nearer? (7) 24. Amongst them all, one lying on its own (6) 25. Grade G weapon-producer (6)

DOWN

1. Gulls can cause a mess we have to tidy up! (3-4) 2. Noises around Spithead return during sitting (7) 3. Cling to the

rod? (5) 4. Medium sittings

(7) 5. See 6 Down 6 & 5Dn. Money and two letters for musicmakers (5,5) 9. Everybody in favour of large deal? (3,6) 14. In which whales show their class? (7) 15. Leaves, making a file go wrong (7) 16. Churchmen always on edge? (7) 19. Waste a means

of ignition (5) 20. Meat in a meeting-place (5) 21. People from Denmark somehow make a chair (5)