Daily Telegraph Toughie 525 Thursday March 10th 2011

[herbage]

1d rub out phonetic pronunciation of vehicle S-A-

6a cuddled by creep, left to get dressed (4) ---D

25d useful imperative when starting to write hymn (5) Looks like HANDY to me but why? Useful=handy

[baitress]

6a - clad. creep = cad with L in

[neep]

6a cad around l = clad
25d when you write hymn the first two letters are h and y (handy)

[baitress]

25 - h and y are the first two letters
of hymn.

[herbage]

Thanks

[Oldred]

1d slay

[herbage]

Thanks. It's obvious once you're told.