CLASSIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Acrobat – one's seen on

bars (7)

5 Sticking up for being

stuck-up (5)

8 Italian villa houses forging

equipment (5)

9 Talk about milliner (7)

10 Former clergyman, outwardly

devout (8)

11 Trust response to be

heartless (4)

13 Bit of cloth fellow put round

monster (6)

15 Colour of canary or

chicken (6)

18 Financial institution found by

the river? (4)

19 Rise late, unfortunately, but

still the first to arrive (8)

22 A get-up's the makings to

steal the show (7)

23 Post bet (5)

24 Silly to include Rex in the

sketch (5)

25 Once again considers, and

pays to get back (7)

DOWN

1 Hit gently to grab run, but get

caught (7)

2 Film second to compete (5)

3 Sweet money, we hear, dad's

after (8)

4 Get back engineers before

military takeover (6)

5 Blueprint of tailless aircraft (4) 6 Porridge AA motel dished

out (7)

7 Dry it may be, but not

clean (5)

12 Some cereal is edible, that's

understood (8)

14 A name is wrongly given due

to forgetfulness (7)

16 Humour the head and

countersign (7)

17 Rush for the job (6)

18 Spring is on the way (5)

20 Delete some camera

sequences (5)

21 Tense instructed orally (4)

ACROSS

1 Bend down (5)

4 Fellow soldier (7)

9 Bask on a beach (8)

10 Ascertain the age of (4) 11 Canada's capital

city (6)

12 Distant, standoffish (5) 13 Common winter

illness (4)

15 Deity (3)

16 Collapse to the

ground (4)

17 Forward (money) (5)

19 Nibbling (6)

21 Sign of things to

come (4)

22 Steer (8)

23 Trespass (7)

24 Waterside plants (5)

DOWN

2 Faith (5)

3 In a ship (2,5)

5 In addition to (4,3,5)

6 Machine picking up

sound broadcasts (5) 7 Devoted (7)

8 Made less curly (12)

14 Male rower (7)

16 Weariness (7)

18 Large residence (5)

20 Remarked, observed (5)