CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1 Good deal of pub profit (7)

5 Advantage in four-speed gears

9 Event with piece of soap? (7)

10 Show contempt for national leader prophet (5)

Odds on container being reject (5) Cornered and grabbed broken leg (6) Say no to litter (6)

Lift out Henry’s extremities – disgusting! Lauren’s disaster, imaginary (6) Enraged buccaneer losing his head Abolish article from annual (5)

Part of articulated lorry lit – rear, possibly Sense that money charged gets lost (4) They use rocking to get to sleep (4-3) 11 12 14 16 18 19 22 23 24 25 (4) taken (5) in (6) by (7)

DOWN

2 Goodbye to something cast in gold (5)

3 Reasons for healthy increase in public opinion

4 Up in space, circulate part of the frozen polar region (3,3)

Nuisance on river at the lowest Broadcast tune for Jane (4)

Yours truly needs a certain action taken (7) Important gesture if one of us is unable to follow From memory, where the lungs are (2,5) Intended to invest last of pension fund (7) Seize contents of a nest (6)

Against leaving hollow passage (5)

Young animal showing bit of leg (4) 6 7 8 10 13 15 17 20 21 point (7) (11) (11)