CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Nutrition consumed when eating sulphur maybe (7)

5. Haughty way to do one with lavish entertainment (5)

8. Is always in being given food in a hectic way (7)

9. Pursuit of a type frame one could engrave (5)

10. Decorative work with wood from my quarter perhaps (9)

12. It is allowed to return the vegetable (3)

13. He doesn’t work but is necessary to a set of bagpipes (5)

17. Old Mother joined bard at the centre (3)

19. Praise the Sappers first to bring them to one’s favour (9)

21. Girl responsible for the look of dark areas on the moon (5)

22. A bacterium involved the old boy in crime of a sort (7)

24. Be on one’s feet for a time shared at the wicket (5)

25. How soon rue may become oppressive (7)

DOWN

1. Ill repute gained if many are involved in it (6)

2. Controls what’s excessive in non-u guns (7)

3. Masculine address is up to the king (3)

4. Check the accounts for gold bandit didn’t prohibit (5)

5. My red chap could be a very insensitive person (9)

6. Egg-producer is given nothing to change (5)

7. How lovely to be phantasmagorical! (6)

11. Surreptitious way to make an arrangement with the hundred (9)

14. A shake in the voice may be lot more awkward (7)

15. Gland that thus causes my upset (6)

16. They have nothing to do with such pulleys (6)

18. A pouch to rub up as it’s overturned (5)

20. Small character part in play is carved out of stone (5)

23. The rod is the remedy, right away (3)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Caper 4. Desktop 8. Mores 9. Pairing 10. Lie

11. Larghetto 12. Moth 13. Itch 18. Narrative 20. À la 21. Accrues

22. Alert 23. Yiddish 24. Toyed

Down: 1. Complementary 2. Portent 3. Result 4. Deport 5. Slight

6. Twist 7. Pigeon-hearted 14. Tracery 15. Saluki 16. Kitsch

17. Repast 19. Riced