September 2001 Cryptic Crossword - 15 x 15

 


Clues - Across

1. Food goes off - it's the insects (11)
8. Complaint of Jack Worthing to one talking like a dentist? (9)
10. Get ready to eat (5)
11. From the stamp I conclude it's in Mexico (7)
12. Crown collection for benefit of listeners (4,3)
13. Decorated a duck the Navy consumed (6)
14. One who can't remember me, as I can recollect (8)
16. Herb - Austrian composer with a word of French (8)
18. Ballerina deserted by a physiologist (6)
21. Literary characters with a leaning to the right (7)
22. Roman goddess in an ancient language (7)
23. One dramatically expected to leave the spot (5)
24. Variety of green, tailless marsh duck (9)
25. A French revolutionary's closest aunt, perhaps (4-7)

Clues - Down

1. Be a fool grabbing cross in the middle (7)
2. They're troubled over Mark having a redness of the skin (8)
3. Refrain from alcoholic drink after tea-time, say (7)
4. Simple kit a boss requires you to assemble and you can't do
it! (10,4)
5. Tony Scott never could be so totally ignored (4,2,8)
6. We might come across them having a game with a poet (7,7)
7. Ordinary choice of grassland (6,2,6)
9. Many ring the doctor up and appear vague (4)
15. Look! Mom's revived the Soviet youth group (8)
17. One who like me, takes less than a second to finish (7)
19. Salt, one touring foreign state (7)
20. Iranian money brought back home (4)