Rotorua Daily Post

Cryptic crossword

-

ACROSS

1. Heaven's gatekeeper's not at home if one dies away (6,3)

5. One is no longer favouring this side of the field (3)

7. American man in journalism was habituated to it (4)

8. Mad to change it, Edward owned up (8)

10. Cycle around the establishm­ent to find a base (8)

11. He sings, but might otherwise be pronounced fishy (4)

13. It's curious in red revolution to move with uncertaint­y (6)

15. Engine sounded starved, but was in the pink (6)

18. Solid body of Ursa Minor at the end of June? (4)

19. Look at the mirror and this may help one see (8)

22. Everything one puts in foie gras to soften it (8)

23. Return to the French to give the glad eye (4)

24. Half the snakes have gone to tot things up (3)

25. Err with one replacing nothing for the moment to produce fun (9)

DOWN

1. Opted for pleasantly rounded half of 7 (7)

2. Material is unwanted in the garden following half of it (5)

3. It's hard to go through gold and be a trader (6)

4. Journey on which one will fall over one's own feet (4)

5. Away from home with play-actors, not welcome in society (7)

6. Loses colour being fed as maybe (5)

9. Without a headmaster? It blooms! (5)

12. Stick out for Gershwin initially in his Blue compositio­n (5)

14. Was an amateur artist bad? The reverse: he suffered! (7)

16. In the Sahara oasis finally provides what may be last course (7)

17. 'Why, then the world's mine _____' (The M W of W) (6)

18. In a particular pocket found coconut material turning up (5)

20. A street in Paris in which gendarme first appears to row (5)

21. Stable business (4)

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from New Zealand