CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

6/11

ACROSS

1. Trap in mag set out for a bird (9)

5. It is a long way off 23 being incomplete (3)

7. Landing place in the fashion of Yemeni capital (4)

8. Such a glance as leg gets if net is torn (8)

10. Part trial put India out of it (8)

11. American editor did formerly (4)

13. Chelonian may be mocked by soup maker (6)

15. Almost strange distribution of student allowances (6)

18. Money supply gives one amusement on 1st December (4)

19. Expansion occurs, having laid it on like this (8)

22. Cargo changed by one American of becoming demeanour (8)

23. The cost of travel sounds equitable (4)

24. Aircraftsman may come from Berkshire (3)

25. They sell when litres are used for them (9)

DOWN

1. Pleasantly pungent pie topping with quaint mixture (7)

2. Give a prize to a minor under a guardian (5)

3. Run full out for Poll, by the sound of it (6)

4. They’re against one’s changing (4)

5. A shiver for sins compounded by it (7)

6. Dig one right over if not articulated (5)

9. Step built into wall lets one cross it (5)

12. Intermission will soundly slow things down (5)

14. Plunder one that perhaps sank car (7)

16. ‘where Alph, the sacred river, ran...Down to a ______sea’ (Coleridge) (7)

17. Offence taken by Trappist leader at a game of cards (6)

18. Musical form creates bad atmosphere: use no centre for it (5)

20. How senseless it is to turn Annie out (5)

21. Revile one over being a fibber (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

Down: