CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

19/5

ACROSS

1. Record of meeting made up by seconds (7)

5. Be silent! It’s a game of cards! (5)

8. One being taught to be a wage-getter after fifty (7)

9. Its building-blocks might disappear in sunnier climes (5)

10. Bubbly person best at his sport gets silver: one loses lead (9)

12. Give one a dressing-down that may be a transformation (3)

13. Revolting person will stagger around the top of the bar (5)

17. Moorland height starts towering over region (3)

19. Sack the man on watch for standing in the grate (9)

21. Slacken off end of tassel and put a board on it (5)

22. Attacks a fool when about to put to sea (7)

24. Provide hands and leave the fruit (5)

25. He may have no bottle left, having finished his round (7) DOWN

1. Spite of March Hare first shown to Wonderland visitor (6)

2. Naturally it falls again and Academician is upset about it (7)

3. Brief mathematical function of sun-bronzing (3)

4. Rush about at Gateshead: it’s a gesture (5)

5. Sign of surrender is a flight we organised (5,4)

6. How to win Los Angeles over is related by marriage (2-3)

7. Despite being hot and bothered, one might hug it (6)

11. Share selection left in a ship for one to fool with (9)

14. It holds the mind of Iran perhaps with Latin surroundings (7)

15. It flows right inside a vapour (6)

16. Betting the price is curious when numbers are up (4-2)

18. Is up and is going east in the Navy (5)

20. ‘this earth, this ____ , this England’ (K Richard II) (5)

23. The sun, note, thus appears at the end of April (3)