CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

2020-05-08 -

ACROSS

7. In defeat, a point short, one gets house part without tiring (13)

8. For ever do one’s hair neatly arranged around end of pin (11)

12. Foolish senility makes one go astray with the date (6)

14. Tyro evidently free from immorality (6)

16. Stepped out and used feet in the South-east (6)

18. Full contents in the remainder, and this is the upshot (6)

19. Stalks the first to be introduced to them? (6,5)

23. Doesn’t interfere – but doesn’t get oil, either (4,4,5)

DOWN

1. Picture a gingerbread biscuit (4)

2. Member of Upper House always poetic, quietly ahead (4)

3. Mother the years will inflict harm on (6)

4. Gull – or a land-bird? (6)

5. A tax around the South is enormous (4)

6. Sort of 4 for shooting of the no-blood sport (4)

9. Her Latin one, abandoned somehow, will hold one spellbound (7)

10. At which one is taking things easy (7)

11. Coin would be quite proper were it half-made to begin with (4)

12. How much to take does vary (4)

13. Object of worship has put boxer up to it (3)

15. Circle you and I are indebted to (3)

17. French pupil goes North for the team (6)

18. To use abusive language is horrid when recommenced (6)

19. A dog’s pendulous chop travelled in a particular way (4)

20. As to its adaptation, it’s for drying the hops (4)

21. It’s fishy, and that’s flat, what one walks on (4)

22. Tuneful offering at a very cheap price? (4)

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Minutes 5. Whist 8. Learner 9. Igloo 10. Champagne

12. Wig 13. Rebel 17. Tor 19. Fireguard 21. Easel 22. Assails

24. Mango 25. Milkman

Down: 1. Malice 2. Niagara 3. Tan 4. Shrug 5. White flag 6. In-law

7. Though 11. Portfolio 14. Cranium 15. Stream 16. Odds on

18. Risen 20. Realm 23. Sol

All puzzles

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Appear 5. Obsess 9. Heaped 10. Crop up 11. Bare

12. Massacre 14. Reason 16. Chaste 19. Crevasse 21. Fled 22. Inbred

23. Doctor 24. Secede 25. Desist

Down: 2. Preface 3. Express 4. Rudiments 6. Barbs 7. Expects

8. Supreme 13. Succeeded 14. Recoils 15. Acerbic 17. Affects

18. Tremors 20. Amend

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTIONS