Easy CW today
ACROSS
1 - Gets going, sorting out mostly tricky tasks (4-6) - KICK STARTS*(-y)
6 - Silence leader in Africa, slightly mad (4) - {GAG}{A}
9 - Is help in it misplaced for one who's lowbrow? (10) - PHILISTINE*
10 - Huge Greek character losing face (4) - (-o)MEGA
11 - What on-course bookmakers may be doing, talking too loudly (8,3,4) - SHOUTING THE ODDS [CD]
13 - Overlooks foliage blossoming (6,3) - LEAVES OUT [DD]
15 - Goddess Jeffrey Archer's captured (5) - FREYA [T]
16 - Cried out for a drink (5) - CIDER*
17 - Former queen with gift, reportedly, as writer (9) - {PAST}{ER}{NAK} (~knack)
19 - Expression of views about split in government agency abroad (5,10) - STATE {DEPART}MENT
22 - Monster, as a result, returned (4) - OGRE<-)
23 - What may be turned on if one's down in a pumping station? (10) - WATERWORKS [CD]
24 - Garment - king left wearing it (4) - {K}I{L}T
25 - Food store, booming, delivers, we're told (4-6) - DEEP FREEZE (~frees)
DOWN
1 - Some like pistols and military caps (5) - KEPIS [T]
2 - One seen in vehicle round capital (5) - CA{I}R{O}
3 - Martyr condemned segregation (5,6) - SAINT GEORGE*
4 - Against carrying on, old sea captain in Twelfth Night (7) - {ANT{ON}I}{O}
5 - Small child in shade pocketing fancy toy (4,3) - TIN{Y TO*}T
7,8 - One's hard to find, and keys a chatelaine lost (1,6,2,1,8) - A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK*
12 - I flew free to foreign landmark (6,5) - EIFFEL TOWER*
13,14 - Completely secure merchandise, a brand new line about to be introduced (4,5,3,6) - LOCK STOCK {AND BAR*}{RE}{L}
17 - Talk at tedious length about the Spanish clergyman (7) - PR{EL}ATE
18 - Develop image at college (5,2) - SHAPE UP Anno pending
20 - Strange and frightening eastern lake (5) - {E}{ERIE}
21 - Sip drop of sherry in gallery (5) - TA{S}TE
Col,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that this was quite easy. A couple of later ones, due to appear six or seven weeks later, proved to be rather tough. Mainly because some references were highly parochial. Literature, history, geography, whatever, as long as they can be reasonably expected to be within the knowledge of an educated person are fine. But a suburb of a town in England - such obscure references are the undoing of overseas solvers. But we can't complain. It is in a UK paper, the setter is a Brit and the solvers are mostly in UK though now with online crossword becoming free there msut be sizable number of overseas fans as well.
18 - Develop image at college (5,2) - SHAPE UP Anno pending
ReplyDeleteImage = Shape & College= U{univ} and P=?
I think I have explained this somewhere quite recently.
ReplyDelete"up" means "at school or in university".
Here, we assume U is for University and look in vain.
But if we disabuse our mind of this and check 'up' in a dict, we will see light.