Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


20 January



Across

1Favourites about to show pace (4)
3Arab and Scot producing tumblers (8)
9Airman coming from Scandinavia to Russia (7)
10More for the actor in a crowd scene (5)
11Strained, having neither won nor lost (5)
12Tempt with some different ice-cream (6)
14It takes a turn for the better (8,5)
17Invented and resolved differences (4-2)
19Tokyo, strangely, is a city in Japan (5)
22Capital person settled in manor (5)
23Use live explosive that's had to pin down (7)
24Ragtime for Cinderella (8)
25Studies, mostly stupid (4)

Down

1Normal colours? (8)
2Heather - a girl's name (5)
4Words that should be used to make address right? (7,6)
5Open - and finished on time (5)
6Journalist's work may be definite or indefinite (7)
7TV series seen in the bathroom (4)
8Weight carried by expert without delay (2,4)
13Mistakes made with flowers (8)
15Without weapons, like Venus de Milo! (7)
16Look alive! Weigh cup soundly! (4,2)
18Boredom of nun going mad in eastern island (5)
20Name of female oil-producer (5)
21Vehicle taken right across Manchester, initially (4)