Exercise your brain cells with our crossword

Exercise your brain cells

LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTIONS

ACROSS: 7) Toga, 8) Seraphim, 9) Gymkhana, 10) Rash, 11) Opera, 13) Boatman, 15) Melodic, 17) Trade, 20) Isn’t, 21) Pinafore, 23) Traverse, 24) Lead.

DOWN: 1) Body, 2) Marker, 3) Asian, 4) Treason, 5) Spirit, 6) First aid, 12) Pressure, 14) Airport, 16) Octave, 18) Raffle, 19) Under, 22) Real.

CLUES ACROSS

6 Everything in total (3) 8 Accessory before and after the fact (10) 9 Make a request (3) 11 Of low estate and no exalted family (3-4) 13 Tall wader related to a heavier mover (5) 14 Name of the book you are reading (5) 15 Really a veritable new experience, so curious (5, 1, 7) 16 Treated in flame and so consumed (5) 18 One of a number of realisable possessions (5) 19 Of an over-large dimension sideways (3, 4) 20 Charge made by a professional (3) 23 Predictor of the future according to astral signs (10) 24 From which you might bring home the bacon (3)

CLUES DOWN

1 Implement you might tie a tab around to hit a ball (3) 2 Defined section of a drama as the performers might play (3) 3 Facial distortion expressing pleasure (5) 4 Interconnected society of pupils from the same institution (3, 3, 7) 5 Musical composition for eight instrumentalists (5) 7 Final communication posted (4, 6) 10 Dishonest artifice and criminal deception (10) 11 As of now, this minute, quick coffee (7) 12 Malady afflicting the once healthy (7) 17 A stoat turned up, we couldn’t drink its health (5) 18 Fully matured being, child no longer (5) 21 If it preceded a chicken, where did it come from? (3) 22 Exhibit strong emotion and produce vast quantities of tears (3)