GUARDIAN CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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ACROSS

9 With sound, bat screens old vessel after 12 (9)

10 One avoids bye by involving a couple (1,4)

11 Girls manufactured poles I installed (7)

12 Rare question in exam: ‘What’s

another name for a finback?’ (7) 13 Asian banker’s attempt to quit business (5)

14 Pole identifies Welsh runner (9) 16 What kind shooters do on Glorious Twelfth, snitch? (4,3,4,4)

19 The Caymans managed to expel English sailor (9)

21 All at once, last pair leave, expressing disapproval (5) 22 Game people lose these going round the bend (7)

23 Gulf state picked up ENT problem (7)

24 Finds missing disc deliveries (5)

25 Problem for poultry farmer who’s getting on? (2,7)

DOWN

1 Regularly play sport, coming first like clockwork (10) 2 Indian cricketer liked a VIP I ejected roughly (5,3) 3 Spanish golfer’s bracing new ball game (6)

4 Finish circulating scores in the poolroom (4) 5 Stumped, falls over, limiting time to resume (5,5)

6 Article in L’Equipe about a hybrid game (8)

7 British haul in each caviar supplier (6)

8 Cancel large jump on rink (4) 14 Release mother and children, occupants of lodge (10) 15 Affair involving Yankee swimmer’s sport (3-7)

17 What summers can do to a stile that’s rotting? (8)

18 Skater trained in

West Indies to practise another sport (8) 20 Sort of kick gutless officer investigating deaths (6) 21 Dainty milk supplier pens Italian book (6)

22,23 Game guy controls more than

one private company (8)