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Across
1 Easing of tensions in temporary accommodation surrounded by river (7)
5 Within hid a horse (5)
8 Track for planes – one direction after charge (7)
9 Name I confused (5)
10 Catch with a rope, look, circling animal (5)
11 Being detached from the main body locusts loiter regularly on last of plunder (7)
12 Sadly statue of a dead person (6)
14 Miserable no-goer (6)
17 Either way this popular novel is a vapid gossip (3,4)
19 Rough projections of crumbling crags (5)
22 Introductory section of a raga, strangely palatable (belt out in a frenzy!) (5)
23 Revolutionary Zoroastrian, strange sort taken away (7)
24 Limitlessly delayed to make someone ecstatically happy (5)
25 Ian and I at odds (7)
Down
1 Key for changing tone is curiously tidal (5)
2 Awful taxes (5)
3 Buckled worn key (3,4)
4 My note in error giving true origin of word (6)
5 Introduce one member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (5)
6 Waiting for a proposition in government (7)
7 Exceed limit of series of six balls and way of scoring in cricket (7)
12 Attribute of Pangaea in a fashion (7)
13 A place of scientific research and a university qualification (7)
15 Peculiarly discern and annul (7)
16 Old hedge on acreage I inspect originally (6)
18 Fruit put to use with identity extracted bit by bit (5)
20 Marsupial with South American grass (5)
21 New Agha distressed in country of West Africa (5)
Here is last week’s solution:
GenevaLunch, 14 December 2012.
Filed under: Crosswords
Tags: Chalicea, Cryptic crossword, No 138
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