CRYP TIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
8 Hands no longer cold? Let’s get on with it! ( 3,6,3,3) 9 Idiot knocking container over ( 3) 10 An altercation if meal is terrible? I don’t know what to say ( 5,4,2) 11 Many in relapse, falling back, looking less well ( 5) 12 Former British firm getting irritated moved abroad ( 9) 15 See bird lay egg possibly after crossing river ( 7) 17 Last character to leave Cornish place in act of atonement ( 7) 19 ‘ Setter- off’ finally reached school by a hill ( 9) 20 Monk not wanting important lady’s soup ( 5) 21 Inadequate deputy is given different duties for a change of fortune ( 11) 24 Factory laying off a thousand? That is unfortunate ( 3) 25 Situation when hanging’s left hanging? (4,2,9)
DOWN
1 The details being spelt out will be most ghastly ( 10) 2 Rose, maybe, is fine cow ( 6) 3 Fat maiden, maybe, needing rest by the sound of it? ( 10) 4 Goddess that moves through Oxford (4) 5 Ordeal having to manage drive in a car of uncertain reliability? ( 5,3) 6 Scientific man of law said to seethe (4) 7 Sin unacceptable – stop! ( 6) 8 In camp the connection one gets is ropey (4,3) 13 Petitions to get resumption organised ( 10) 14 Sort of inflammation – nurse is pressing on it ( 10) 16 It might get a six? It’s very unlikely (4,4) 18 Level of command in military formation ( 7) 19 Scheme essential to revolutionary fancies I’ve ditched ( 6) 20 Add strength to complaint at university (4,2) 22 Eat greedily from hamper, but not quietly (4) 23 Plan that helps to give side advantage (4)