Crossword 2713

ACROSS

1 From _ to riches (4) 3 An _ up one’s sleeve (3) 5 Immense (4) 9 Kind and friendly towards a younger person, like an uncle (9) 10 Tavern (3) 12 Passionate (4) 13 Slender and elegant (6) 15 Fifth month of the year (3) 16 A person who votes or has the right to vote in an election (5) 17 Not in (3) 18 Fairly new (6) 20 Askew (4) 22 A polite address for a man (3) 23 Identification of diseases from the examination of symptoms (9) 24 Daybreak (4) 25 Staining or colouring substance (3) 26 Make sheep’s _ at (4)

DOWN

1 The act of leaving one’s job on reaching pensionable age (10) 2 Storehouse for threshed grain (7) 4 The male of the domestic fowl (4) 6 Fourth month of the year (5) 7 Relating to both hearing and sight (11) 8 Charles Dickens’s famous novel and its poor boy title character (6,5) 11 To deal with a problem or subject (3,2,5) 14 Pen in which pigs are kept and fed (3) 17 A long voyage marked by many changes of fortune (7) 19 A woman whose spouse has died (5) 21 Green-eyed monster (4)

Yesterday’s solutions

ACROSS 1 Chaotic 5 gamut 8 Imitation 9 Orally 11 Effect 12 Sot 14 Ewe 15 Night 16 Low 19 Ape 26 Differ 22 Minute 24 Earmarked 25 Altar 25 Moneyed.

DOWN 1 Compose 2 Animate 3 Trial and error 4 Char 9 Grief-stricken 6 Manse 7 Tempt 10 Row 13 Egg 16 Laundry 17 Opt 18 Weekend 20 Drama 21 Fleet 23 Balm