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CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS ACROSS 1 Pays the asking price and has a home (7) 5 Port where mother embraces Bill with love (5) 8 Starting to steal at home a thug becomes an outlaw (5,4) 9 I’m quiet but he may not be (3) 10 Yield to pressure and hand over (4) 12 A girl outwardly competent and very charming (8) 14 A Pole in a vessel from another European country (6) 15 Wanders away from the street lights (6) 17 Serviceman set about alteration of range (8) 18 Grudging admiration of diplomat who lacks nothing (4) 21 Not right away? (3) 22 Items of luggage may be severely tested (2,3,4) 24 Prepared to explode - or not to explode (5) 25 Many felt irritated and abandoned (7) DOWN 1 One doesn’t care to give it (5) 2 A reservation turns up for a bath (3) 3 Sustained hunger (4) 4 Throw out uneven and inferior material (6) 5 Means speed but not excessive (8) 6 A chap on foot (9) 7 Burden of work imposed on newspapers (7) 11 Respects in which events are contrived (9) 13 Starfish disclosed by tides or a storm (8) 14 Write a quick note and leave in a hurry (4,3) 16 Appearing in duet maybe in concert (6) 19 Bound to pull together (5) 20 Beat the band (4) 23 A warning to say nothing after the fire (3)
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS 1 Energetic (7) 5 Spurious (5) 8 Intermediate (2-7) 9 An extremity (3) 10 Sharp in taste (4) 12 Type of dagger (8) 14 Coarse in manners (6) 15 Unvarying (6) 17 Provided for general use (8) 18 Stock of cattle (4) 21 Singular (3) 22 Without hesitation (4,1,4) 24 Foolish (5) 25 Rascally tricks (7) DOWN 1 Pile of wind-driven snow (5) 2 Arrest (3) 3 Silent (4) 4 To produce (6) 5 Triteness (8) 6 Accessible (3-2-4) 7 Think probable (7) 11 Exemplar in particular sphere (4,5) 13 By hand (8) 14 Empty-headed (7) 16 Pedestrian (6) 19 Short simple song (5) 20 Sudden loud noise (4) 23 Shade of colour (3)