CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

BEST FOR BUDGET

HoMedics’ gun is not just a great allrounder, it will also set you back less than a hundred quid, meaning you’ll have already dodged the tension you’d be blitzing away with a massage gun after splurging on a pricier option. You get a decent bit of kit for the money too. Take, for instance, the variety of massage head attachments included. Our fave is the Ushaped head, which gets to those hard-toreach, niggly areas such as the trapezius muscles, the achilles tendon muscle, ankle muscle and calf muscles. Meanwhile, the conical head will attack and release those knotty and painful trigger points.

£99.99, argos.co.uk

ACROSS

7. Computer Mark I? (6)

8. They perform together as a body of soldiers, we hear (6)

10. It’s lightly mantled (3,4)

11 & 25Ac. Half a mo’! (5,6)

12. Archer gets sore back (4)

13. Use discrimination in cutting fruit (5)

17. Denude a thin piece (5)

18. See 3 Down

22. Make merry with a lively dance round the capital of Victoria (5)

23. Disturbed sleep I have (7)

24. Equivalent status for one in a political faction (6)

25. See 11 Across

DOWN

1. They are transported by Masefield’s poem (7)

2. It’s meant to be played by bachelors with very little delay (7)

3 & 18Ac. Sweetbread? (5,4)

4. Gift dispatched in advance? (7)

5. To be intimidating you need a bit of beef (5)

6. Comfortable place for the start of a new life, we hear (5)

9. They provide incentives for horsemen (9)

14. One showing agility in twisting the tale (7)

15. One who helps the teacher to test for radioactivity (7)

16. Commits a foul – send off, maybe (7)

19. Edible rubbish (5)

20. Voter upset – it’s not secret (5)

21. The least error will reveal a bloomer (5)