Across
5. Region in Germany led on, cheated.
7. Master Joe is wise as three men.
9. Dickens' man in the papers.
10. Unit of big guns going to Germany.
13. This character irks, sickens and ruins your computer.
14. Take a gamble with something trendy in Corporate Services.
17. Red or Black was very lucky for Rowland.
18. Multi-National sandwich without tomato for the officer commanding.
22. Pelt old Monarch to cause uproar.
23. It is poetic timing when the great one gets a bus.
25. Popular refrain with measure uttered with one quizzingly.
Down
1. Clasp snake without measure.
2. Ladies get a call from Cable.
3. Saying lawyer is in time.
4. About time for Andrew to get sweets.
6. Large mammal certainly gets illness.
8. Paper sales person in church.
11. Percy takes unofficial leave from theatre.
12. E Flat to B Natural and fade.
15. Queen in transport of the land.
16. A trainee hobo not out of protein.
19. A Double French at 9, oral add on.
20. Rebels to question one from Middle East.
21. So the medical society read up and preach lessons from here.
24. Type of drink without head.
Incidentally, if you want to win and win regularly - prize cryptic and ordinary crossword puzzles in certain papers, ( 'certain' being the operative word ) then, quite oddly, just getting the answers right is only half the battle; you have to apply what I call the Del Boy Principle. Regardless of how silly this sounds, it works, for certain - this is what you do - put your crossword in such a huge envelope that it has to go over the counter at the post office, not just put in the post box, and - do not post until the day before the last day for entries to be in; this ensures an awkward oddly shaped object having no place to go but top of the pile, ready for the bleary eyed underpaid hack put in charge of competitions, to come in to the office, burp, wipe his ( or her ) mouth, light a fag, and say ' Quick as you can, Doreen, pass us today's winner, off to the caf' in a mo' - bingo, you've bagged it.
Ok, let's take the rosey coloured specs off; you won't win all the time, no one does, but you will win far more frequently by doing what I have just suggested, instead of being the sap with an A5 envelope that get's lost in the pile of thousands of other A5 envelopes.
But, not all papers play fair, as contradictory as that sounds to what I am suggesting, some operate a regional bias; there is not much point in anyone from Liverpool entering the Daily Mail or Mail on Sunday competitions, you will just waste your grey cells, your time, and your envelope and postage money. However, DO do this with the Express and Sunday Express cryptic crosswords ( not so much the Squire nor the Skeleton, rather ironically ), the Express Magazine �1,000.00 Crossword - bagged that once too, the Sunday Mirror, the People, the Sunday Post Magazine( monthly only ). Most importantly, make this the routine, not just a one off. Every so often, you will find yourself with a nice cheque for a �100.00 ( Express ), �10.00 ( Mirror and People ) or as they sometimes change to - a selecton of paperback books.
One thing though, unless you are after the sense of Kudos / seeing your name listed in the paper, ( novelty wears off after about the 10th win ) do not check the competition winners list that they print once a week or maybe every month, this is because they never ever send the prizes out on time, just let it be a surprise weeks or months later; if they say 30 days, give it 60 or more. After saying that, one time I won 4 week's in a row, and it was when they swapped for a while to offering a Collins Dictionary and Thesaurus set. At the time, I was part of a 3 man crossy team in work, and as it was all for one - one for all, the 4 sets of books were to be issued, one to each of us, with one over for the boss ( yeah, creeps, the 3 of us ! ); but one of the team was due to retire and leave the area to go back home to Yorkshire. I won the crosswords in February, the books arrived on the very morning of his leaving party, in late April; so as you can see, not worth counting chickens as it were, my old mate could easily have got the train to Eckerslike or wherever the hell he lived, minus his books. Ok, as you may have seen, the blank grid and crossword clues are above, and to put you out of your misery, there is a link to the completed answer grid at the bottom of the page.
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