BL TWO-WAY CROSSWORD 2427
EASY ACROSS
1. Rookie (7) 5. Get on horse (5) 8. Make one sad (7) 9. To such time (5) 10. Famous person's signature (9) 12. Fish-eggs (3) 13. First Greek letter (5) 17. Animal foot (3) 19. Blatant (9) 21. Darkness (5) 22. Soaking up the sun (7) 24. Categorises (5) 25. Things aimed at (7)
DOWN
1. Spoke-like (6) 2. Block letter (7) 3. Employ (3) 4. Puccini opera (5) 5. Oral sluice (9) 6. Say words (5) 7. At an angle (6) 11. Gets degree (9) 14. Put together (7) 15. Wallops (6) 16. Sayings (6) 18. Bet (5) 20. Scope (5) 23. Schoolmaster (3)
NOT SO EASY ACROSS
1. Take new men on to credit what's acceptable in form of rite (7) 5. Get on horseback to put on play (5) 8. It will make one feel blue to push down the plunger (7) 9. To such time as a French version at end of Lent gets the Italian (5) 10. Supply signature that may be booked (9) 12. Eggs, of a sort, supplying mineral with centre ahead (3) 13. First thing a Greek writes: bet rest of characters supply it (5) 17. Legend, where animal's concerned, placates all wild beginners (3) 19. Not being bashful, nude has Ma upset (9) 21. ‘Soft stillness and the ___________ Become the touches of sweet harmony’ (M of V) (5) 22. Hide in sack when lying in the sun (7) 24. Kinds left without a leader in a ship (5) 25. Such things as are aimed at the sailor obtains (7)
DOWN
1. Sort of tyre for an Academician to face (6) 2. Seat of government, perhaps, that's first-class (7) 3. Avail oneself of a part in a famous expedition (3) 4. An operatic eponym supplied by a Scot (5) 5. It ought to make a clean hole in the head (9) 6. Say something out-and-out (5) 7. Was inclined to have taken part in the joust (6) 11. Is successful, to a degree (9) 14. Arrive, holding rubbish container, to get it together (7) 15. After bridge, kiss is abandoned as one chastises (6) 16. More than one saying one's years in sad arrangement (6) 18. Bet that's silver we are holding, right at the end (5) 20. Am injured by dog? Ten fewer will confine one! (5) 23. Male address is to be given up before end of September (3)