Puzzles

Across

  • 1 Biosphere's unlimited exotic fruit (7)
  • 5 Firstly, the enemy euthanized the hapless canines (5)
  • 8 Warm them right through with a lovely cover (7)
  • 9 Decline in gold is so long (5)
  • 10 Horsewoman is less wet after the leader slips back to third (5)
  • 11 Line of Neapolitan gentlemen (7)
  • 12 Join regatta challenge part way through (6)
  • 14 Spotted and showered with love - about time! (6)
  • 17 Beam added to the German mill (7)
  • 19 Noblemen ahead of their time but on a different footing (5)
  • 22 Freeze National Insurance for old Britons! (5)
  • 23 School resident is thicker with resistance movement (7)
  • 24 Redhead meets alien that is secure again (5)
  • 25 Worshipping a party band... like The Magi? (7)

Down

  • 1 It turns in either direction (5)
  • 2 Pay out for some of his pen drawings (5)
  • 3 Could be epic in price, limitless (7)
  • 4 Civilized coppers taking time instead of wielding clubs (6)
  • 5 It's worn by the bride or groom (5)
  • 6 Clear pit after I have briefly returned (7)
  • 7 Visited peacekeepers in loathsome setting (7)
  • 12 Increasingly annoyed about earring (7)
  • 13 Missile shelter built around dump (7)
  • 15 Plant nothing next to mock orange (7)
  • 16 Song about sailor's area of the Middle East (6)
  • 18 Will campaign tour approach encourage work or strike? (5)
  • 20 Artist adds 502 arm parts (5)
  • 21 Rush about with extremely irritating gesture (5)

Posted in puzzles on May 01, 2023