CROSSWORD

QUICK CLUES

Across

7. Mystery (6) 8. Backwards (6)

10. Short flourish played on

brass instruments (7) 11. Impure form of quartz

used as a gemstone (5) 12. Hoop (4)

13. The box, informally (5) 17. Impression (5)

18. Just (4)

22. Creature (5)

23. Biblical book (7)

24. Man's name (6)

25. Deed (6)

Down

1. Act (7)

2. Attractive (7) 3. Smudge (5)

4. From Tel Aviv, e.g. (7) 5. Copper, e.g. (5) 6. Beginning (5)

9. Don't be concerned

(about) (5,4)

14. Position (7)

15. Subsided (5,2)

16. In attendance (7) 19. Lessen (5)

20. Accounts (5)

21. Slap (5)

CRYPTIC CLUES

Across

7. Mystery game in

fashion (6)

8. Like a bird at the

back (6)

10. Supporter having to

get on with a trumpet

tune (7)

11. An entrance of stone (5)

12. Phone for a jewellery

item (4)

13. On which to see

Savalas? (5)

17. Corresponding

sticker (5)

18. Just light (4)

22. Beats up an animal (5)

23. Anaesthetists? (7)

24. The man is a wanderer

returning to the East

End (6)

25. What the director

shouts when the play

starts? (6)

Down

1. Act for every class (7)

2. Charming like

Victor? (7)

3. Slander mares,

perhaps (5)

4. Serial I rewrite

concerning MiddleEasterner (7)

5. Encountered a man of

iron, for example (5)

6. Start to rewrite notes (5)

9. Don't worry, having

driven men crazy (5,4)

14. Victoria's position (7)

15. Collapsed due to hollow

noise (5,2)

16. Current gift (7)

19. Diminish an enticement,

say (5)

20. Stories of substitute

jurors (5)

21. Hit a boat (5)