Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


14 January



Across

1Complaint caught by the aged? (4)
3Are Europeans allowed to dance round them? (8)
9Tutor taking meal with singer and actress (7)
10He's simply a nursery-rhyme character (5)
11Marijuana for the informer (5)
12Fierce woman in river (6)
14Old politician responsible for treble Poor Law reform (6,7)
17Boss putting blunder right (6)
19Dark sort of thing! (5)
22Transparency of a bit of playground equipment (5)
23Greed displayed by girl taking pudding (7)
24Score two less (8)
25But it's work for the dramatist (4)

Down

1Grey coat designed in class (8)
2Animal going round a shopping precinct (5)
4High-level conflict (6,7)
5Get Italian food over one (5)
6Drooping duck by Italian river - or African river (7)
7It's warbled in Los Angeles (4)
8A drink for a horse (6)
13The early shift may be tough (8)
15Overcoming punishment (7)
16A carriage from Queensland, Australia (6)
18Quick ships (5)
20Interrogate part of the cooker (5)
21Land in the water (4)