CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Wearing a beard where kids are around (9)

5. An objection to an outer room in Scotland (3)

7. Invalid diet for soaks (4)

8. It may be imparting a slant on fishing like this (8)

10. Their delivery being crude, they will lose out (3-5)

11. Let it stand correction of a correction (4)

13. Woodcraftsman who was an artist (6)

15. Cricketers in the field one commands with a weapon (6)

18. Two hogsheads may be filled with tobacco (4)

19. How to offload bun under difficulty (8)

22. Magnificent, the way rogues go astray (8)

23. Do nothing on the motorway to condemn one (4)

24. It signifies agreement in every Esperanto rendering (3)

25. There should be no danger of one getting the point of it (6,3)

DOWN

1. What may be nothing to us is a complete failure (4-3)

2. Instigate one to give me lip like this (5)

3. A small wave from 18 Across moving left and right (6)

4. Say one didn’t disown one (4)

5. Show one’s annoyance at blister it causes (7)

6. One is too concise to be intoxicated (5)

9. The left always bar control (5)

12. Marsh, being American, is not the real thing (5)

14. Files a news story on explosive noises (7)

16. Bringer of sleep to the fellow on the beach (7)

17. Fun had with broken leg may swallow one up completely (6)

18. A little gluttonous, where toes are concerned? (5)

20. Between doctor an operation, nothing must grow faint (5)

21. They make up a match as one lays the table (4) MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Gambling 7. Basal 8. Nursing 9. Gravity 10. Ewes

12. Dossier 14. Hurtled 17. Vane 18. Pontoon 21. Carbine

22. Earls 23. Premises

Down: 1. Gander 2. Murderer 3. Laid 4. Nagged 5. Asti

6. Player 7. Braised 11. Billows 13. Invalids 14. Hopper

15. Dancer 16. Recess 19. Nark 20. Grim