Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


8 January



Across

1It provides illumination for the French politician (4)
3Dull players finished first (8)
9Rolled gold on a boat (7)
10Once more making a profit (5)
11Times for musicians in the Stockport Empire (5)
12Agree while getting told to go? (6)
14Film star Burr hit Conrad in play (7,6)
17Country in the Himalayas (6)
19Become red in the face or hand (5)
22Mad artist receives offer (5)
23Father has to bury an artist (7)
24Sheer rip. perhaps (8)
25A bird for the architect (4)

Down

1Spills, perhaps, in boats (8)
2Note going backwards and forwards (5)
4Food that cooks have made plain (4-3-3,3)
5Raises backs (5)
6Anti-anti-gas-explosion? (7)
7Lean nurse (4)
8Coventry's lady rider - but not in dressage event! (6)
13No hunter may reveal fugitive (2,3,3)
15Room in church getting colour (7)
16Not just lacking in beauty (6)
18Mountains in an American desert? (5)
20Unqualified to speak (5)
21Support for piano? (4)