GENERAL CROSSWORD

▶ Across

1. Money received (6)

4. Make earnest request (6)

9. Restrict growth (5)

10. Morally, legally bound (7)

11. Sends back (7)

13. A seabird (4)

15. Member of scholastic, arts college (11)

18. Roman garment (4)

20. Concerned with own interests (7)

22. Bright red (7)

23. A non-live round (5)

24. Consider as an affront (6)

25. Vagrant, homeless sleeper (6)

▶ Down

1. Introduce into (6)

2. Burning, corroding (7)

3. A kneeler (3)

5. Relating to government (9)

6. Keen (5)

7. Stable hands (4)

8. Head of a school division (11)

12. Emission of rays (9)

14. Religious sister (3)

15. Suitable (3)

16. Living creatures (7)

17. Style of furniture (6)

19. Man-eating giants (5)

21. Mark of a wound (4)

23. A biography (3)

▶ Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Crater 5. Define 8. Exe 9. Amatol 10. Calico 11. Aves 13. Tandoori 14. Slant 15. Rebel 19. Activate 21. Sage 22. Forest 23. Insane 25. Ems 26. Setter 27. Sexism Down 2. Removal 3. Tot 4. Relate 5. Decent 6. Followers 7. Nicer 12. Sentiment 16. Engines 17. Halter 18. Remiss 20. Chore 24. Six