New Zealand Listener

CROSSWORD

- By David Tossman

Clues across

5. Beware of this viewpoint (4,3) 7. Why embracing nothing right is highly respectabl­e (6) 9. Altogether at home with child to love (2,4) 10. Exceed one’s capacity and drive too, stupidly (6,2) 11. Eleanor Catton for one has not written about unusual lives (8) 12. Man with intelligen­ce grabs big life boat for expert with power (6) 13. What Disney’s camera operators had to do to make fun of people (4,3,6) 17. Glad seeing Joseph half embracing you (6) 20. Rolled-gold parrot with stars and stripes (3,5) 22. On stage, a verbal improviser with a chronic dribble (2-6) 23. No publicity about consumptio­n is rather good (3,3) 24. Hound bishop with aggressive flyer (6) 25. Little bit I included in total to build a whole sports ground (7)

Clues down

1. Small wolf over-sensitive to broken toe (6) 2. Master cooking risotto for the driver (8) Proprietor­s worsen new arrangemen­t (6) 4. Contract psychiatri­st (6) 5. Part of the game in which a queue appears at the exit (4-3) 6. Acted on stage playing brothers to Dad (4,3,6) 8. Communist support for an Australian web developer (7) 14. Learned ruler is going around at present (7) 15. Occupying study, one with a learner, but refusing to come to terms with it (2,6) 16. The end of the ship’s spar has three feet attached and a whole limb (4-3) 18. Get lashings for removing the topping from pasta (6) 19. Rental arrangemen­t for a tiny naval vessel? (6) 21. Lead a tour initially by way of Riga and thereabout­s (6)

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