Exercise your brain cells with our crossword

Exercise your brain cells

LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTIONS

ACROSS: 7) Delusion, 8) Heed, 9) Chump, 10) Corrode, 11) Short, 13) Keyhole, 16) Inanely, 17) Slump, 18) Gouache, 20) After, 23) Veil, 24) Main road.

DOWN: 1) Mesh, 2) Dummy run, 3) Win, 4) Snooker, 5) Char, 6) Pendulum, 12) Hand over, 14) Hold fire, 15) Alchemy, 19) Ally, 21) Exam, 22) Din.

CLUES ACROSS

5 They go down to it in ships (3) 7 Gatherer of parts for a computer’s low-level symbolic code perhaps? (9) 8 Lack requirement at one and the same time (4) 10 Structure with curved surfaces designed to lift in flight (8) 11 Spread it on ice, clench the teeth and show true pluck (4) 12 Huge woolly creature once walked the earth (7) 14 Detached or isolated tract of land (4) 16 Time of stress for anyone on a course (4) 17 Once mighty monies coming from across the pond (7) 18 Action and proof of home ownership (4) 20 Of anything from down there past the Equator (8) 22 Large arched part at the end of many a church (4) 24 Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness....holds (9) 25 Pack up your worries in this old bag (3)

CLUES DOWN

1 Provided the milk for Cleo ’ s bath (5) 2 Passes on info, to the rest of the office or firm (4) 3 That which deviates from the norm (8) 4 Use the sense of touch to become familiar (4) 5 ... and be seen if you want to stay safe on the road (3) 6 Shows one thing may be included with another in short (3) 8 Long dark periods when many things come to a halt (6) 9 Placed strategically around the cinema, aid emptying out (5) 12 Become involved in what is not strictly your business (6) 13 Impenetrably, unintelligibly, not transmitting light (8) 15 Friend of a little handy bear (5) 19 This coffee packs a punch when served with sugar and cream (5) 20 Where the building is taking shape (4) 21 Very small trace gives just a suggestion of taste (4) 22 The only way to get what you want in the end (3) 23 Cause to begin, put in place and leave to gel (3)