ACROSS 1 Habit (8) 5 And (4) 9 Manufactures (5) 10 Faultless (7) 11 Scholar (3,2,7) 13 Modernise (6) 14 Icy (6) 17 It brings passenger back to starting-point (6,6) 20 In name only (7) 21 Holy table (5) 22 Missing (4) 23 Land (8) DOWN 1 Cougar (4) 2 Ungainly (7) 3 Male sex hormone (12) 4 Foundry furnace (6) 6 Loyal subject (5) 7 Steadies (anag) (3,5) 8 Scrivener’s palsy (7,5) 12 One of the hills of Rome (8) 15 Larger (7) 16 Less fresh (6) 18 Occasions (5) 19 Victim (4) Tuesday’s solution Across: 1 Plumbs, 4 Fathom, 9 Supremo, 10 Heels, 11 Larch, 12 Turmoil, 13 Sierra Leone, 18 Collect, 20 Id est, 22 Iliad, 23 Omicron, 34 Millet, 25 Mettle. Down: 1 Pestle, 2 Upper, 3 Blether, 5 Abhor, 6 Hoedown, 7 Muscle, 8 Contraption, 14 Ill will, 15 Edifice, 16 Schism, 17 Stance, 19 Undue, 21 Egret.