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CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Thpeakth (5)

4 Demonstrating how to make music outside (7)

8 When small, I will need it (3)

9 Sort of bread that makes a dinner complete? (9)

10 Add to the general confusion (7) 11 Gushing sort of writer? (5) 13 Changes of clothing? (6)

15 He may produce stupor - in his readers? (6) 18 A noted drama (5)

19 Not so much retired as happy (7)

21 Run, we hear, to beat the storm (9) 23 An attempt to indicate time past (3) 24 Feeling fed-up? (7)

25 Rents and rates revised (5)

DOWN

1 Fifty snakes - and their game partners (7) 2 Does it just moon around? (9) 3 Someone mending a pipe? (5)

4 Music of the Twenties? (6)

5 Writer in a row that develops into out-and-out conflict (4,3)

6 Anger that is about right (3)

7 A leg’s broken by hard blows (5) 12 Crude oil in a USA state (9)

14 Team tie neatly knotted for the afternoon break (7)

16 Sort I used to find boring (7) 17 Burning a mark on a horse (6) 18 Different from the inside or outside (5) 20 Not inclined to build (5)

22 Strike a blow for rising equality (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Thin candle (5)

4 Shrewdly tactful (7) 8 Atmosphere (3)

9 Bird of grouse family (9) 10 Excess amount (7)

11 Fully conscious (5) 13 Boredom (6)

15 A water ice (6) 18 Impertinence (5)

19 Break into pieces (7) 21 Large voracious seabird (9) 23 Be in debt (3) 24 Appendage (7) 25 Hazardous (5)

DOWN

1 Passage across (7)

2 A gamebird (9)

3 Drive back (5) 4 Commendation (6) 5 Pain in lower back (7) 6 Pull hard (3)

7 Light narrow boat (5) 12 Large oceanic bird (9) 14 Strange (7) 16 Lathework (7) 17 Obliquely (6) 18 Chocolate drink (5) 20 In pursuit of (5) 22 British rule in India (3)