DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC ACROSS

7 Team in which Pele ventured to play (6)

8 Diners’ clubs? (6) 10 Prevented from making a full report (7)

11 Pole at the Highland Games (5)

12 Willingly have a new life (4) 13 A rotten thing to find (5) 17 They burn sacks (5) 18 Forbid a rigged vote (4) 22 He has skill and courage (5)

23 Wild hornets provide symbols of power (7)

24 The French advance for water (6)

25 It seems it will take a great time to get accepted in a place (6)

DOWN

1 Game and how to score in it (7)

2 No longer bound to deliver (3,4)

3 Takes off rings, we hear (5) 4 An issue of particular importance (7)

5 Sort of prize bird (5)

6 A matter of extreme interest to the lender (5)

9 The followers stand here when assembled (9)

14 Fancy work? (7)

15 Receives support from a thin boy (5,2)

16 It may wilt and droop in the centre (7)

19 A case that is hard to project in attack (5)

20 Push your way in and snatch up the key (5) 21 Compulsory arrangement? (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Wafer. 4 Eyewash. 8 Aground. 9 Ether. 10 Drew. 11 Organist. 13 Ague. 14 Pout. 16 Uprooted. 17 Ache. 20 Nadir. 21 Spiders. 22 Wreaths. 23 Eaten. Down: 1 What do you know. 2 Force. 3 Rout. 4 Endure. 5 Elevator. 6 Atheist. 7 Horatio Nelson. 12 Autocrat. 13 Abridge. 15 Census. 18 Chest. 19 File.

QUICK ACROSS

7 Toil (6) 8 Courageous (6) 10 Kind of dog (7) 11 Squabble (5) 12 Flabby (4) 13 Platform (5) 17 Exactly (5) 18 Let fall (4) 22 Throng (5) 23 Quandary (7) 24 Dormant (6) 25 Ebb (6)

DOWN

1 Compactly (7)

2 Gets (7)

3 Ghastly (5)

4 A vegetable (7) 5 Ultimate (5)

6 Nimble (5)

9 Trite saying (9)

14 Banal (7)

15 First (7)

16 Attire (7)

19 Graduated measure (5) 20 Stall (5)

21 Change (5)

Yesterday’s solutions:

Across: 1 Imbue. 4 Cunning. 8 Anxious. 9 Gusto. 10 Part. 11 Contrive. 13 Ever. 14 Toss. 16 Reporter. 17 Bode. 20 Alone. 21 Provide. 22 Extreme. 23 Bogus.

Down: 1 Inappropriate. 2 Boxer. 3 Eros. 4 Custom. 5 Negation. 6 Instils. 7 Grotesqueness. 12 Retrieve. 13 Exploit. 15 Temple. 18 Owing. 19 Tomb.