Simply Daily Puzzles

Coffee Break Cryptic


27 April



Across

Musical state (8)
Snake grasped in the middle (3)
More or less in the vicinity (5)
10 Warm fowl for a pagan (7)
11 Enjoy Kelly being compared (7)
13 Astray on the ocean (2,3)
14 US raid ordered by Persian leader (6)
15 Sea-food rascal found on island (6)
19 Doctor joining American Medical Association in theatre work (5)
21 Space - it could be germ-free (7)
22 Girl getting a game before the end of August (7)
23 Elegant but impudent (5)
24 Regret having cruel heart (3)
25 Musical roundabout (8)

Down

One who disparages a door attachment (7)
A National Trust insect (3)
Skin found in compound outside Holland's capital (6)
A fall of snow or lava he can fix (9)
One of the musketeers muffed a shot (5)
Animal seen in police car (5)
Everything's immoral about song (6)
12 Ale curing outbreak of nervous pain (9)
16 Gas - the name is peculiar (7)
17 Provoke fashionable quote (6)
18 Assault a baseball player (6)
19 Refuse to admit beard is unkempt (5)
20 Incidental remark made by a team (5)
23 In this way university gets a bit of money from France (3)