Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


25 September



Across

Is nude ordered to find lingerie? (6)
Protect a railway employee (5)
Crime of someone receiving stolen property (7)
10 A girl got up about one (5)
11 Meeting to vex saint (5)
12 Old man initially in touch is over the top (3,4)
14 Engineers give up and retreat (6)
16 Keep mum confined (4,2)
19 Ruined English female sheltered by benefactor (4,3)
21 Quash urban legend started by girl (5)
23 Fly around Finland's capital — until now (2,3)
24 Turns as otter turns (7)
25 Bird, for example? About time! (5)
26 Having a go is troublesome (6)

Down

One newspaper in US city that's smart (5)
Editing novel that may be set on fire (7)
The rest of the afternoon? (6)
Movie star taking up old card game (5)
Attack a sailor, by the sound of it (7)
Female followers of CND (3)
Exhausted boxer, say, tried to change (3-5)
13 Don't be so optimistic — it's past praying for (8)
15 Have a discussion about one sort of tree (7)
17 Mend your old-fashioned well (7)
18 Conservative upset by doctor's decay (3,3)
20 Prime time under trees (5)
22 Up or down, it is unacceptable (3,2)
23 Observe the diocese (3)