CLASSIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Alien captain with hauler in
star system (5,8)
8 Plant, one beside river (4)
9 Sometimes acceptable, cocoa is drunk before November (2,8)
10 Headwear modelled, going
around a Parisian hotel (6)
11 Remarking about Boz and
another around fire (8)
12 Move around centre of Delhi
working small clubs (9)
14 Airman forgetting current
plan (4)
15 Characters back in post, safe
and secure (4)
16 Inheritance tax from dad with
hut yet to be sorted (5,4)
20 Person gets on when probed
by right bosses (8)
21 Cover one nurse straightened
out (6)
23 Deep sorrow? Try time and
rest (10)
24 Nothing twitching in the ear (4) 25 Confuses crew being in a
bygone type of boat (6,7)
DOWN
1 Increase of a mean
reported (7)
2 Jaunty Hamish's heading for
Scots city (5)
3 Send in beer for faithful
supporter (7)
4 European with still head
showing apathy (15)
5 Strange tone engulfing church
is type of music (6)
6 In shifting dune, burrow left
open (9)
7 Resolve one negative in
defeat (4,3)
13 Wished to hug father that's
anguished (9)
15 Occurrence of signal
overhead (5-2)
17 Con banks in Lille and run (7) 18 King involved in dreadful
tirade later (7)
19 Creature from Germany with
short beak (6)
22 Almost save male in attack (5)
ACROSS
3 Headed (3)
7 Fastening fabric (6)
8 Chief journalist (6)
9 Oil distilled from
petroleum (8)
10 Matting fibre (4)
11 Unfocused (6)
12 Notwithstanding
that (6)
15 Festivity (6)
18 Eulogise (6)
20 Slowly leak water (4) 22 Witness, observer (8) 23 Pixie (6)
24 Puzzling riddle (6)
25 ___ ‘Going Out’, Lee Mack comedy series (3)
DOWN
1 Edible grain (6)
2 High award or
honour (8)
3 Adorable, charming (6) 4 Discern (6)
5 Constituent of brass (4) 6 Putting seeds into the
ground (6) 11 Marshy area (3)
13 Religious choral work (8)
14 Garden implement (3)
16 Terse (6)
17 Old royal attendants (6)
18 Moulding used to conceal curtain
rails (6)
19 Misty due to condensed vapour (6) 21 Bucket (4)