COFFEE TIME

ACROSS

1 Unnamed person (2-3-2) 5 Barrage balloon (5) 8 Ceremonial table (5) 9 Non-professional (7) 10 Fop, dandy (8) 11 Emerald Isle (4) 13 Lump of gold (6) 15 Soaring firework (6) 18 Apparatus (4) 19 Brings up (8) 22 Area of thick grass (7) 23 County (5) 24 Snoops (5) 25 Accumulates (7)

DOWN

1 Whet (7) 2 Cause a fuss (3,2) 3 Of unsound mind (8) 4 Equal or level (with) (2,1,3) 5 Drummer’s rhythm (4) 6 Arena for skaters (3,4) 7 Sieved food (5) 12 Waters off eastern Britain

(5,3) 14 Clear drinking vessels (7) 16 Hanging tufts (7) 17 Nepalese soldier (6) 18 Board (a bus or train) (3,2) 20 Damages, destroys (5) 21 Containers (4)