TAKE A BREAK

CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS

1 King coming in late causes

terror (5)

4 Sauce from copper with

famous daughter (7) 8 Poet to write in ship with

monarch (7)

9 Dwarf rudely abrupt (5) 10 Club doctor bound leg (8) 12 Bigamy thus contains false

notion (4)

14 Spots English agents (6) 15 Diversion routed

incorrectly (6)

18 Old rook seen in church

centre (4) 19 Fool appearing twice in The

Executioner (8)

21 Some idle rodents lose

ground? (5)

22 Orange grated over herb

(7)

24 Sniping remark? (3-4) 25 Teacher from university to

run on time (5)

DOWN

1 Base and lid broken, put

out of action (7)

2 Farm animal in stew

extracted (3)

3 Quarrel where sea ridge

collapses (8)

4 Trick to keep paintings in

box (6)

5 Indifferent over after spinner

on song initially (2-2)

6 On my back in a sense

unknown (9)

7 Daughters desire Chuck (5) 11 Top meal, no starter, second

in test (9)

13 Weird dance with Ted is

depraved (8)

16 Curran fouled, keeping ball,

shows spite (7) 17 Companion in tight corset

(6)

18 Sycophant to move slowly (5) 20 Shem misused the

network (4)

23 Do something in American

court (3)

COFFEE TIME ACROSS

1 Great fear (5)

4 Dessert accompaniment

(7)

8 Faerie Queene writer (7) 9 Diminutive (5)

10 Hit with heavy stick (8) 12 Fiction (4)

14 Notices (6)

15 Alternative way travelled

(6)

18 Innermost part (4) 19 Hired murderer (8) 21 Wear down (5)

22 Wild marjoram (7) 24 Unfair criticism (3-4) 25 Private instructor (5)

DOWN

1 Incapacitate (7) 2 Female sheep (3) 3 Argue (8)

4 Cardboard container (6) 5 Mediocre (2-2) 6 Unidentified (9)

7 Trench (5)

11 Highest (9)

13 In moral decline (8) 16 Bitterness (7) 17 Accompany (6)

18 Tiptoe (5)

20 Interlock (4) 23 Performance (3)