CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

3/7 ACROSS

1. Last month, among other sins, they were made to abuse one (7)

5. Indent for a particular style of architecture (5)

8. One may show one’s offended by hogshair (7)

9. Stopped being beheaded, which made things simpler (5)

10. Advocate schoolmaster returning in exchange of goods (9)

12. Take out a suit against a girl, in short (3)

13. The original porcelain land (5)

17. Nim took this pole as a hunter (3)

19. Can’t provide a flame that can’t be equalled (9)

21. Work hard to put by fifty in it (5)

22. Lit up an altered form of marrying (7)

24. Something in the dough may go easy on time (5)

25. One to verify a singular game of draughts in America? (7)

DOWN

1. Give me bib, one I can use when I drink (6)

2. Iron the cup before leaving (7)

3. Biblical character may be put up for auction (3)

4. Soldier – one suffering from fire damp? (5)

5. Stretch too far above a section of the river (9)

6. Non-u throw in the Olympics may make the records (5)

7. Druid one may have left with hesitation on the steering-gear (6)

11. It may be one’s duty to be holder of church benefice (9)

14. Tapering pillar can be kilos in construction (7)

15. Faithful Ford model showing signs of corrosion (6)

16. Masonry block it’s rash to set out around Los Angeles (6)

18. Huntress one can give a help to, setting up (5)

20. The key-note may be used as a gin mixer (5)

23. Shepherd’s cottage varieties of it (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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