THE CROSSWORDS

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Saucepan’s ready for cooking a snipe (3,4) 5 Credit marks? (5)

8 A craft based on fundamental duplicity (9) 9 This man invaded England (3)

10 Lay off the wine (4)

12 The sameness of unique characteristics (8) 14 Disregard one note and not another (6) 15 Prove you are the boss - as Henry VIII did (6)

17 Vegetarian, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (8) 18 A particular feature of the Jacobite movement (4)

21 Skill acquired in regular teaching (3) 22 Thought me old-fashioned about it (9) 24 School fees? (5)

25 Ostentatious displays of military strength (7)

DOWN

1 Steps - quiet ones (5)

2 Acrobatic bird may turn upside-down (3) 3 Carry a load of despondency (4)

4 Tried a form of abuse (6)

5 Having an occupation (8)

6 Abstemious in Europe for example (9) 7 Roamed the street with ready change (7) 11 Band controller for a current transmitter (9) 13 Old warships with three sets of propellers (8) 14 A second coffee maybe (7)

16 Supported by arms or threatened by them? (4,2)

19 Perhaps some go round a number of ways (5) 20 It may guide a traveller around deserts (4) 23 Hal stopped with him (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Excess amount (7) 5 Fictitious statement (5) 8 Listen (4,2,3)

9 Person’s destiny (3) 10 Irritable (4)

12 Revealing (8) 14 Attractive (6)

15 To last (6)

17 No longer in fashion (8) 18 Operatic song (4) 21 Centre of activity (3) 22 Unanimous (2,3,4) 24 Behave towards (5) 25 Wealthy (7)

DOWN

1 Find answer to (5) 2 Manage (3)

3 Burden (4)

4 Unit of Israeli currency (6) 5 Widely distributed (3-5) 6 Harass (9)

7 Going to great lengths (7) 11 Accessible (3-2-4) 13 Decisive gun battle (5-3) 14 Kind of needlework (7) 16 Change for the better (6) 19 Extra (5)

20 Average (4)

23 A climbing shrub (3)