CRYPTIC 320

ACROSS

4 I’ve to act and appear to be busy doing it (6) 7 Told to shape up in Arlington! (8)

8 Gee! Walk like that and you take such a risk (6)

9 Finished with the French mop etc? (8)

11 A table formation right there in Canada (7) 13 Get to rein in a whole number of them (7) 15 Written in spite of the French inclusion (7) 17 Able to clean up all one’s debts (7)

20 This cult is seen to have it and it’s edible too (8)

23 So many things to be done but one’s age has an end to it (6)

24 Resounding when using sonar on the net (8)

25 Buries it and sees it rest in there (6)

DOWN

1 Her love is for a brave man (4)

2 Will hold fast to this sort of diet (6)

3 Twenty two geese in an S-shaped formation (4)

4 She’ll harp on about some strange life-form (5)

5 Meddle with that picnic basket by changing its top (6)

6 A tale about five Romans and one manservant (5)

9 Give little credit to that goddess in an emergency situation (6)

10 How a sailor obtains what he aims for (7) 12 A red tan may become quite fiery (6)

14 Even I see how to show it clearly (6)

16 Listen to how mute it has become (6)

18 Morgan got the tip-off for playing it (5)

19 There’s a lot of reason given for the way it approaches (5)

21 Thrown out to the players (4)

22 A number are seen to have “one over the eight” (4)