CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Instance of stealing (5) 7 Linoleum (8)

8 Tear into small pieces (3,2) 10 Demoralise (10) 12 Economically disadvantaged people (4-4)

14 Jealousy (4)

16 Fortified wine (4)

17 Car repairer (8)

20 Every so often (2,8)

23 Injure (5)

24 Tepid (8)

25 Cutting part of a knife (5)

DOWN

1 Brown songbird (6) 2 Prolonged mutual hostility (4) 3 Breathe long and loud (4) 4 Fragment (5)

5 Large land mass (9) 6 Game similar to hockey (6)

9 Apron (5)

11 Fails to notice (9)

13 Definite article (3)

15 Chuck (5)

16 Human beings (6)

18 Wax light (6)

19 Sullen or angry frown (5) 21 Painful (4)

22 Christmas (4)