CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Put heroin in one’s case and this will carry the baggage (9)

5. Be back at top of beach when the tide will go out (3)

7. Japanese seaweed returned to do laundry work (4)

8. A desire for food: petit pea concoction (8)

10. Cleft in glacier saves almost the whole crew (8)

11. Feeble as seven days may sound (4)

13. It’s not often models are so put out (6)

15. Might be pert at the sound of tiny feet (6)

18. A part of an arithmetic problem, one is told (4)

19. Is shared perhaps with salad vegetables (8)

22. Spot of water experienced in the fall (8)

23. At one time, cone got shifted (4)

24. Severely reprimand one for transformation (3)

25. Outcome ten might add lustre to (3,6)

DOWN

1. Royal sons adjust the pincers (7)

2. Old woman might reckon on losing the king (5)

3. A meal that’s concerned with history (6)

4. Smooth and never incomplete in turnover (4)

5. High-standing nine met with confusion (7)

6. Will not remain whole in the intermission (5)

9. Cathedral dignitary sounds as if he may be fired (5)

12. Sort of tag that’s classical (5)

14. One politician surrounded by fish is not walking steadily (7)

16. Think highly of a sort of spectre (7)

17. Play around with actor who might include five (6)

18. Scatter waters perhaps after a loss (5)

20. An Indian from Cochin (Dutch) (5)

21. Paradise garden may need reshaping (4) MONDAY’S SOLUTION Across: All puzzles ©

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Across: 7. Condescension 8. Reminder 9. Hang 10. Career

12. Yearly 14. Era 15. Heated 17. Lunacy 19. Stir 21. Claymore

23. Announcements

Down: 1. Tolerate 2. Advice 3. Used 4. Betrayal 5. Asthma 6. Soon

11. Reducing 13. Lacerate 16. Terror 18. Number 20. Tune 22. Apex

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS