CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

7 Why the trains can’t run? It will cause a row! (4,2)

8 Where to play as a member of the team? (6)

10 The language of his wail (7) 11 Concerning a boxing match (5)

12 A pleasant resort, it would seem (4)

13 Start for example in a receptacle (5)

17 There are 11 in a standard weight of poison (5) 18 Gabriel’s cheese (4) 22 Doctor and graduate catch a snake (5)

23 Hated learner swearing at editor (7)

24 One unmatched (6)

25 No part for a regular attender (6)

DOWN

1 100 being beaten to finish with (7)

2 Babyhood as imagined (7) 3 The trophy I had portrayed Eros (5)

4 Oration in Canada (7)

5 The airman is one in the conspiracy (5)

6 Blackish pier? (5)

9 Is it intended to produce a crop of explosions? (9) 14 Doctor to pull himself together in behaviour (7) 15 Hear cry about 3’s sport? (7) 16 Title indicates the direction being taken (7)

19 Where a spinster went wrong? (5)

20 Alter the finale in the morning (5)

21 Commonplace prohibition touching a learner (5)