QUICK

Aug 14 2008 by Joel Garner, North Wales Weekly News

ACROSS

1. Early daytimes (8)

4. Transitional point (4)

6. Member of choir (9)

9. Hole-piercing tool (3)

10. English and Scottish river name (3)

11. Set of fruit trees (7)

14. Wild cards (6)

15. Part of Scout uniform (6)

17. Coming into existence (7)

18. Also (3)

19. Seeing organ (3)

21. Soft leather shoes (9)

24. Strong wind (4)

25. Flute-player (8)

DOWN

1. Flat-topped hill (N.American) (4)

2. Japanese drama style (3)

3. Stringed instrument (6)

4. Snooker implement (3)

5. Melton Mowbray specialities (4, 4)

6. Place for coats at theatre, etc (9)

7. Juvenile frog (7)

8. Sends down a division (9)

12. Long-lasting (7)

13. Throwing out (8)

16. Attack (6)

20. Way out (4)

22. Metal-bearing rock (3)

23. Used by trawler (3)

PRIZE

ACROSS

1. Coming from Galicia, battalion must have good bread (8)

4. Try using North Atlantic fish for starters (4)

6. Makes it longer, being in favour of wide lands (9)

9. Athena makes drink in seconds (3)

10. Relief to find young amphibian (3)

11. Breaking pact, I’ve got prisoner (7)

14. Good hens, each on top of another? (6)

15. Listen, but there turns out to be no sound (6)

17. For beginners, speakeasy has extreme booze – excludes exasperated novices (7)

18. Rough and ready mariner’s art (3)

19. Extra payment in appreciation for waste? (3)

21. Placates gangster’s lady, if that’s son following (9)

24. Purple tincture gives shell without corruption (4)

25. Leading Finns bewail source of incandescence (8)

DOWN

1. Get lucky, make obsessive group retreat (4)

2. Bachelor has right to make exclusion (3)

3. Troubled, but rid of cloudy waters (6)

4. Drink for less-posh tout (3)

5. Tease the strange arty type! (8)

6. Heard my PC rebooted in elephantine fashion (9)

7. Crude device either side of fissure (7)

8. Greatness of revolutionary soldiers (9)

12. Fails as polar equipment – better in tropics! (7)

13. Manifest nonsense to applaud snare (8)

16. Twins – but only jewel in one? (6)

20. Quietly dismissed with petulant look (4)

22. Rolls out order for poem (3)

23. Every last man heads for tree (3)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

QUICK ACROSS: 1: Bolivia. 4: Cynic. 7: Urban. 9: Mutes. 10: Dressed. 11: Pasta. 12: Waddle. 14: Swords. 17: Rates. 19: Riposte. 22: Putty. 23: Maybe. 24: Kazoo. 25: Despots. DOWN: 1: Bound. 2: Venus. 3: Armada. 4: Catspaw. 5: Noses. 6: Compass. 8: Bread. 12: Warlock. 13: Lesotho. 15: Rusty. 16: Brayed. 18: Topaz. 20: Pumps. 21: Evens.

PRIZE ACROSS: 1: Artisan. 4: Ensue. 7: Pique. 9: Corfu. 10: Evident. 11: Tokay. 12: Fulmar. 14: Script. 17: Rugby. 19: Rallies. 22: Aimed. 23: Lemur. 24: Natal. 25: Excused. DOWN: 1: Apple. 2: Swede. 3: Nicety. 4: Erratic. 5: Skunk. 6: Encrypt. 8: Quill. 12: Foreman. 13: Abysmal. 15: Ilium. 16: Fridge. 18: Graft. 20: Lilac. 21: Shred.