THE CROSSWORDS

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Colour of Dutch house (6)

4 Terrible though not loud stream of abuse (6) 9 Oven holds vessel in front (7)

10 Bad lighting (5)

11 It comes from a bird and sounds inexpensive (5)

12 Don’t approve but is liked somehow (7)

13 His products are essentially wicked (11)

18 A new tropic fruit (7)

20 Measure of restriction (5)

22 Range over an area in a clean-up operation (5) 23 Skinhead breaks rules, gives up (7)

24 Final elimination race (6)

25 Like a seabird following a ship (6)

DOWN

1 Where one is likely to find a rink manager? (6)

2 Unusually eager to come to terms (5) 3 Understood it’s filed under ‘G’ (7)

5 Build up a service (5)

6 Number set about making the interior look gay (7)

7 Bird left in a snare (6) 8 Uncalled-for correspondence (4,7) 14 Where a journey may start or a trip be arranged (7)

15 Makes a legal charge (7)

16 Was not prepared to be detective’s assistant (6)

17 Unions strangely in agreement (6) 19 Vehicle to travel as freight (5) 21 Viewpoint that may vary to some degree (5)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Dutiful reverence (6) 4 Impenetrable to sight (6) 9 Postpone (7) 10 Contaminate (5) 11 Pompous gait (5) 12 To display (7) 13 Oppressed (11) 18 Become too big for (7) 20 Enough (5)

22 Deep sorrow (5) 23 Fissure (7)

24 Urge strongly (6) 25 A coming (6)

DOWN

1 Husky (6)

2 Important (5)

3 Greedy eater (7)

5 Sales presentation (5) 6 Petty objection (7) 7 Landed property (6)

8 A few times (4,2,5) 14 Fast-running flightless bird (7) 15 Cul-de-sac (4,3) 16 Language (6)

17 Feel regret for (6) 19 Allude (5) 21 Self-respect (5)