COFFEE TIME

ACROSS 1 Person decamping in secret (3-2-5)

8 Tender (4)

9 Approach to house (8) 10 Bit of seafood (6) 11 Irritable (6)

12 Fade (3)

13 Peruse (5)

15 Resting place (5) 17 Seed (3)

19 Pure (6)

21 Transgress (6)

23 Rude (8)

24 One way to cook (4) 25 Certainly (2, 3, 5) DOWN 2 Prospect of luck (4, 3) 3 Rupture (5)

4 Inclined head (6) 5 Game bird (6)

6 Leaving a will (7) 7 Brush (5)

14 Upset (7)

16 Send (7)

17 Spanish money (6) 18 Door (6)

20 Author of lliad (5) 22 Filament (5)