CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Outsize victim for sea bird (6) 8 Threw a floral tribute (6)

10 A smashing wave? (7)

11 Jar in fireplace (5)

12 Part of cheap section of church (4)

13 Vegetable from Scandinavia (5)

17 Heartless lucre (5)

18 Thus father returns cleansing agent (4)

22 A pose for a fable-writer (5) 23 Tell to add up the votes again (7)

24 Wheedled so the company was cut off (6)

25 Rogues reform – then grumble (6)

DOWN

1 Be patient because of wild animal (7)

2 Pacify primate about vegetables (7)

3 Sickly-looking youth leader at the summit (5)

4 Old people in attempt to produce sad play (7)

5 Diana the water-nymph (5) 6 Principal cook takes one in (5)

9 Cause to cry by sketching rents? (4,5)

14 Support the wrong seer (7) 15 The founder of Rome made our slum (7)

16 Picked out as blotchy (7) 19 Marriage calls for a strike! (5) 20 Mali’s religion (5)

21 Make twenty runs, for example? (5)