DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

7. American mystery writer to attempt some verse (6) 8. Voyage for one in a vessel (6) 10. To err is the making of these activists! (7) 11. A favourable return on more than one occasion (5) 12. A term from some of the theorems in Euclid? (4) 13. Amphibians trodden underfoot by horse (5) 17. This provides timber for a large packing case (5) 18. See 3 Down 22. Permission to make a bequest (5) 23. Eastern reason for exciting deep feeling (7) 24. They may be blooming well part of the orchestra! (6) 25. Concentrated in temporary accommodation (6)

Down

1. Provide someone with information about a trophy, we hear (7) 2. Recoil from being tied up

again (7) 3 & 18Ac. Requisition weapons at the

sergeant's command! (5,4) 4. Organise a place for shooting,

one hears (7) 5. Comfortable seat for Virginia in

a row (5) 6. Pecuniary resources will

produce a way to an end (5) 9. Unusual greatness causes

alienation (9) 14. An earl's reshaped the

magazine (7) 15. One on the track of film

commercial (7) 16. Declares a change in the rates

involving the ship (7) 19. On the one hand it will prevent

frostbite (5) 20. Piece of beef for the

aristocrat (5) 21. Transported to island in the Far

East with nothing missing (5)

QUICK CLUES: Across

7. Indifference (6) 8. Distant (6) 10. Incitements (7) 11. External (5) 12. Mirth (4) 13. Accustomed (5) 17. Blaze (5) 18. Entreaty (4) 22. Souvenir (5) 23. Protracted (7) 24. Annul (6) 25. If not (6)

Down

1. Corridor (7) 2. Sailor (7) 3. Yell (5) 4. Elimination (7) 5. Value (5) 6. Memorise (5) 9. Dissimulate (9) 14. Ease off (7) 15. Apparel (7) 16. Infantile (7) 19. Elegance (5) 20. Vacant (5) 21. Stupid (5)