DOUBLE CROSSWORD

CRYPTIC CLUES: Across

7. Well-known bather's

shout (6)

8. Feel in form, like a cat (6) 10. The head cleaner (7)

11. The kind that turns

green (5)

12. Charge a number for

animal fodder (4) 13. Speeds that go up every

year (5)

17. Expresses regret for glue

that's weak, we hear (5) 18. Entrance for

spectators (4)

22. One may slip and fall into

it (5)

23. Control may rest in the

wrong position (7) 24. Diffident in two ways (6) 25. Left one with a

Shakespearean part (6)

Down

1. Mounts, perhaps, and starts

on a journey (4,3)

2. Small cask for fresh water –

or seawater? (7)

3. Misses jumps (5)

4. Worked to rule? (7)

5. Soldier and worker combine

in a big way (5)

6. Up or down it is neither (5) 9. Out to make one

uneasy? (3,2,4)

14. Take a side turning,

perhaps (7)

15. Money making gifts (7)

16. It's often faced with

resolution (3,4)

19. Appears to understand the

manuscript (5)

20. A hundred are insolent and

coarse (5)

21. Point to organist's control in

bar (5)

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