CRYPTIC 320

Across 1

My mother, so true and so fully developed too (6)

8 Seen in the late race as a tearaway (8) 9 How I long to reside there (6)

10 Gives in to the set leaving only mere traces of it (8)

11 So in Rome they’re regarded as being gloomily ill-humoured (6)

12 Tidings from all four points of the compass (4)

13 To be answered at first about them being baked (5)

16 Anyway, be dogmatic (5)

19 In addition was once seen with fours (4)

21 The game finally has an opener (6)

22 A rust will appear in tea but you can soak it away (8)

23 You find Peter has a good name (6) 24 This will give you a lift (8)

25 Found a sly way to die and just surrenders to it (6)

Down

2 That’s one name for the flower and here’s another (7)

3 Cereal grown on campus? That just can’t be true (7)

4 Even the French have a cricket team (6) 5 Professional but so mouthy! (7)

6 Ian gets to brag about saving money with the find (7)

7 The sort of countryman seen as not altogether pleasant (7)

13 Found in bed and found best to roll a lot (7)

14 One more has the answer to it (7)

15 A Scotsman finds this most wearing apart from the kilt (7)

17 He’s got out of it! (7)

18 Built in Crete by our editor (7)

20 Hers is mostly rye and this other drink (6)