CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Holds back festive containe s (7)

5 She etu ns f uit to youth leade (5)

9 Offal dish (6)

10 Rotte has nasty u ge (3,3)

11 A huge fo eign seat of gove nment (5)

12 As a neck b eaks sideways (7)

14 Founde of almost the fi st hill (9)

18 Lug each new listene ’s complaint (7)

20 White mong el eve sing ound outdoo statue (5)

22 Daniel mistakenly to ushe th ough ent ance (4-2)

23 Chatte with eligious leade , fi st in temple (6)

24 Mistakenly pay HP content (5)

25 Went on a diet ound end of June? opposite! (7) Quite the

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2 Notice I tu ned up blue spo

3 W ite , a m g abbing one bi

4 Beams to lift, you say? (4)

6 I made changes to channels (5)

7 Pa tly ove tu ned cana y cage left as inhe

8 Ve y bad baby’s malady concealed (7)

13 Cha ming topless eng aving (7)

15 T anspo t collection of books (7)

16 Snappe a ived with Royal A tille y (6)

17 Me put on p otective ga ment f om one d ink

19 Some had duplicated to make sense (3,2)

21 Sweethea t leaves spooky lake (4)

tswea d (7)

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