QUICK CLUES

Aug 28 2008 by Joel Garner, Caernarfon and Denbigh Herald

ACROSS

1. Protest vehemently (9)

5. Coarse file (4)

7. Scolding (7)

9. Sound car horn (4)

11. Demonstrate (4)

14. Race official (7)

15. Computer program flaw (3)

16. Large plant container (3)

17. Stinging insects (7)

18. Deities (4)

20. Mine passage (4)

22. Arm bone (7)

24. Flightless bird (4)

25. Identification of illness (9)

DOWN

1. Pastry dough (4)

2. Canal structure (4)

3. Gesture indicating assent (3)

4. Work units (physics) (4)

6. Speedy vessel (9)

8. Short space of time (7)

9. Forerunner, something signalling approach (9)

10. Made horse noise (7)

12. Moved fast and wildly (7)

13. Waste money on trifles (7)

19. River herring (4)

20. Venomous snakes (4)

21. Part of eye (4)

23. Laid by hen (3)

CRYPTIC CLUES

ACROSS

1. Wretched man, futile to protest loudly (9)

5. Extras perform with abrasive intruder (4)

7. Looks cold in concealment, getting telling-off (7)

9. Horrible pink flanks, raucous sound (4)

11. In conclusion, that’s how to demonstrate (4)

14. First course for course official? (7)

15. Program flaw will annoy (3)

16. The urban blooms often found here, initially (3)

17. Shorten for fearsome stingers, perhaps (7)

18. Censored article goads mighty beings (4)

20. Plaudits for part of mine, if nonplussed? (4)

22. With us, rheum is bone of contention (7)

24. Bird’s dexterous, healthy, tailless and flightless (4)

25. Could Assisi song aid medical process, retrospectively? (9)

DOWN

1. Foil ruined pastry (4)

2. Low trick to secure perimeter (4)

3. Show agreement, in anodyne way (3)

4. Introduction to extremely remote, great Saharan wastelands (4)

6. Redesign prow to be a very fast vessel (9)

8. This month, worker just gets brief moment (7)

9. In her garb, she makes eccentric forerunner! (9)

10. Made farmyard noise, heeding commotion (7)

12. Moved fast when apparently injured, headed troops (7)

13. Loud German knight will waste cash (7)

19. Dash out for herring (4)

20. Ass kept quiet, seeing venomous beasts (4)

21. See rainbow in Fair Isle (4)

23. Find me breakfasting, frying it last (3)

Solutions to last week’s puzzle

ACROSS 1: Bashful. 4: Farce. 7: Cubic. 9: Groan. 10: Sawdust. 11: Rusks. 12: Strife. 14: Adorns. 17: Tibia. 19: Caption. 22: Sonic. 23: Roses. 24: Renal. 25: Adheres. DOWN 1: Backs. 2: Fichu. 3: Legate. 4: Floored. 5: Rents. 6: Excuses. 8: Bower. 12: Settler. 13: Flannel. 15: Rails. 16: Acacia. 18: Bosun. 20: Perch. 21: Nests.