CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Quietly smiled about showing them, perhaps (7)

5. The newspapers: does that ring a bell? (5)

8. After six, anger can turn to bad temper (7)

9. Find a tree in a particular churchyard (5)

10. Steady application one found in the old French coach

(9)

12. Russian space station turned back on the brink (3)

13. A role to play when separated (5)

17. The game got by a slovenly woman (3)

19. Is being shot at like the ashes in the grate (5,4)

21. Room with a window built out of a college (5)

22. Use of the teeth, when cig is being rolled (7)

24. Part that swells out by about six hand breadths (5)

25. As the years roll by one doesn’t get any, junior (7)

DOWN

1. In a low den I’d got to split (6)

2. Was mutilated, having been through the wringer (7)

3. A record of one’s progress may be committed to the flames (3)

4. Between Poles, anger sounded a warning (5)

5. Artificial material from which one may style rope (9)

6. It may have to be corrected with the 3Rs, Old English (5)

7. A plan to mechanise, in a lost fashion (6)

11. Changing of the Guard supporter, a bit at a time (9)

14. Making of money by saying phrase not heard before (7)

15. Soak it up in bar: sob about it (6)

16. With the REME, King George formed a combination of companies (6)

18. Closely examine somebody on the gridiron (5)

20. London City area, in being teetotal, one will criticise as being worthless (5)

23. European currency system will not get off the ground (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Paris 4. Resists 8. Caber 9. Nurture 10. Use

11. Powder keg 12. East 13. Arch 18. Resources 20. Dim

21. Mortise 22. Inure 23. Retread 24. Lotus

Down: 1. Picture framer 2. Rubbers 3. Scraps 4. Renown

5. Sorbet 6. Stuck 7. Sledge-hammers 14. Redoubt

15. Pumice 16. Screed 17. Espial 19. Sprat