Puzzles for April 25

Across

  • 1 Station that's away from the Arctic? (6)
  • 5 Terribly bad premonitions so they hold guts in (8)
  • 9 Draw the other way round? (8)
  • 10 Care to look back after increase (6)
  • 11 Plots melt on last amendment (10)
  • 13 Not eating quickly (4)
  • 14 Oliver rejects the fringe experience (4)
  • 15 Sinister journalist abandoned assistant beforehand (4-6)
  • 18 Plant Cleopatra's nemesis next to eccentric diarist (10)
  • 20 Chances are our daughters did swap tops (4)
  • 21 Angry love god flipped (4)
  • 23 Some of Patrick's terseness is directed towards cheats (10)
  • 25 Fear of conqueror retaliating returned to some extent (6)
  • 26 Aim to finish in a row (3-2-3)
  • 28 Going against Elizabeth, Raymond and Alistair (8)
  • 29 On the one hand, there is ground to take one in (6)

Down

  • 2 Vices of woman taking train connections (9)
  • 3 Annoying smoker is puffing away next to me (7)
  • 4 Greek character is swallowed up (3)
  • 5 Top notch theologian is working for extra (3-2)
  • 6 Old money set much in motion as night fell outside (11)
  • 7 Ridicule maiden, incredibly fake French one (4,3)
  • 8 Calls for extremely nice journalists (5)
  • 12 Many a tale is told on numerous levels (5-6)
  • 16 Acceptable attack (3)
  • 17 Stamina cured Anne's suffering (9)
  • 19 Wrongly restrain English bishop in cast iron (2,5)
  • 20 Unfashionable stop is misrepresented as somewhere in the back of beyond (7)
  • 22 Large award leading to 135 degrees (5)
  • 24 Find detail oddly lacking? No, perfect! (5)
  • 27 Cube or slice of ingredient (3)
  • 22 Release characters held captive by gundog (4)

Posted in puzzles on Apr 01, 2025