DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC DOWN

ACROSS

1 Getting uniform into frock needs some arm-twisting (6)

4 Sailor’s posted

as missing (6)

8 Sister entered design

unchanged (3)

9 Precision required to demand money from the head (9)

11 Faces vessels (4)

12 Get away, involved

present-day prank (8)

15 Copy cute

plaid design (9)

18 Unlisted? Dreadfully

offended! (8)

19 Zero noise God

created (4)

21 Make a tiny path

to revulsion (9)

23 Non-drinker takes in nothing, not even this (3)

24 Predator’s very

large quarry (6)

25 Mend unfinished

article with vigour (6) 1 Trousers from south

are dug up and up (6)

2 Ned agrees, unhappily,

they’re deserters (9)

3 Check the stalk (4)

5 Treachery shown later

by a lunatic (8)

6 Female animal you and I found by end of lane (3)

7 Steals off to get

ornamental fringe (6)

10 Teetotal, missing

taking in can? (9)

13 Locate and destroy,

based on hearsay (9)

14 Order pudding? (5,3)

16 Barber knocks over soldier in holiday airport (6)

Informer isn’t disturbing church (6) Why people will display excessive publicity (4) Highest spinning toy (3)

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ACROSS

1 Talk incoherently (6)

4 Anxious, scared (6)

8 Turkish

commander (3)

9 Changed (9)

11 Cut of pork (4)

12 Breakage of a bone

or cartilage (8)

15 Social group for

teenagers (5,4)

18 Internal conflict in

a country (5,3)

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19 Express

weariness (4)

21 Dog used to

scent game (3,6)

23 Tennis shot (3)

24 Boiler (6)

25 Mortal (6)

DOWN

1 Small hunting

hound (6)

2 Programmes with ordinary people rather than actors (7,2)

3 Clean with the

tongue (4)

5 Savagely (8)

6 Behave (3)

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7 Electric fairground

amusement car (6)

10 Durham’s region (5,4)

13 Without restraint (9)

14 Dartboard’s centre (8)

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16 Singe (6)

17 Worn, in poor condition (6)

20 Encourage (4)

22 Molecule of

genetics (inits)(3)