DOUBLE CROSSWORD CRYPTIC

CRYPTIC CLUES:

Across

7. American mystery writer to attempt some verse (6)

8. Voyage for one in a vessel (6)

10. To err is the making of these activists! (7)

11. A favourable return on more than one occasion (5)

12. A term from some of the theorems in Euclid? (4)

13. Amphibians trodden underfoot by horse (5)

17. This provides timber for a large packing case (5)

18. See 3 Down

22. Permission to make a bequest (5)

23. Eastern reason for exciting deep feeling (7)

24. They may be blooming well part of the orchestra! (6)

25. Concentrated in temporary accommodation (6)

Down

1. Provide someone with information about a trophy, we hear (7)

2. Recoil from being tied up again (7)

3 & 18Ac. Requisition weapons at the

sergeant's command! (5,4)

4. Organise a place for shooting, one hears (7)

5. Comfortable seat for Virginia in a row (5)

6. Pecuniary resources will produce a way to an end (5)

9. Unusual greatness causes alienation (9)

14. An earl's reshaped the magazine (7)

15. One on the track of film commercial (7)

16. Declares a change in the rates involving the ship (7)

19. On the one hand it will prevent frostbite (5)

20. Piece of beef for the aristocrat (5)

21. Transported to island in the Far East with nothing missing (5)

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