Difficulty: medium-easy
Skipping obvious ones; definitions underlined.
Across
22. Drinks and a sandwich
Round [double def]: A round of drinks. Also, mostly British usage for the slices of bread used to make a sandwich (I think).
25. His bank account is often misleading
Angler [cryptic]: Not so sure about this one... an angler can be a schemer or scammer, so he's likely not to keep proper accounts?
Down
1. Make an offer for a boat
Tender [double def]: a tender can be a small service boat, or a dinghy attached to a yacht.
14. Utterly pompous
Orotund [cryptic]: I suppose the "utterly" part means spoken, and orotund means a pompous or bombastic style of speech. I like the quote at the Online Etymology Dictionary:
The odd thing about the word is that its only currency, at least in its non-technical sense, is among those who should most abhor it, the people of sufficient education to realize its bad formation; it is at once a monstrosity in its form & a pedantry in its use. [Fowler]
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