THE CROSSWORDS

PUZZLE 16841

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 Go off with food and flowers (7)

5 Student in the teacher’s eye (5)

8 Free? Anything but (9)

9 One item for sale or many (3)

10 Boy in a whirl (4)

12 Journalist about to take a drink (8)

14 Not an exotic plant (6)

15 It sounds risky to play about (6)

17 Drug involves girl in basic changes (8)

18 A Greek follower (4)

21 Old priest in the limelight (3) 22 Advantage of having a superior worker? (5,4)

24 A member of the lower class? (5)

25 Turn me over - that’s better (7)

DOWN

1 Young insects raised up on pea soup (5)

2 Footnote I added to a letter from Greece (3)

3 Plan a little hideaway (4)

4 Angry outbursts in play (6)

5 Minister with a number of shepherds (8)

6 Friend has some furniture that’s in good taste (9)

7 Fired with real reform and no exaggeration (7)

11 Volume of noise - mind out! (9)

13 Something heard in court certain to give joy (8)

14 Follow on and win (7)

16 People with such a depression may still look happy (6)

19 Helped to put a new idea to a number (5)

20 Clear, loud and always rising (4)

23 Increase for a clergyman (3)

QUICK CLUES ACROSS

1 Consider (7)

5 A shift in opinion (5)

8 Sensitive subject (4,5)

9 Dead heat (3)

10 Gape (4)

12 Dawn (8)

14 Arrive in a vehicle (4,2)

15 Go to bed (4,2)

17 Generally believed (8)

18 Understand (4)

21 Uncooked (3)

22 Without fixed limits (4-5)

24 Before due time (5)

25 Outstanding skill (7)

DOWN

1 Chancy (5)

2 To a great degree (3)

3 Catch sight of (4)

4 Island formerly Formosa (6)

5 Begin to do (3,5)

6 Having private information (2,3,4)

7 Small pickled cucumber (7)

11 Resolute self-control (9)

13 Right of self-government (8)

14 Restrained manner (7)

16 Atone for (6)

19 Pious (5)

20 Previously unknown information (4)

23 Female deer (3)