The black squares suggest a five-letter word, according to one of the answers in the grid. What’s the word?
Across1. To start with, something useful must stem from arithmetic (4) 4. My claim to be ethical... or not (7) 8. Harness, and retain without thanks (4) 9. Student at United Nations, Congress of Industrial Organizations, and religious diplomat (11) 12. Some sort of music strike (3) 13. Wooden alien lets drunken brewers use these boilers (3-7) 16. Weepy commercials put ending first (3) 17. Star seen every day in newspaper (3) 18. Recurring events follow test on car or smaller vehicle (10) 19. One’s charged out of the processional (3) 20. A depressing change in what’s been given in advance (11) 23. See 18 down 24. Spanish coin is my first apparent truth (7) 25. Imprison below deck somewhere (4) |
Down1. Some actor initially isn’t rolling joint of great quality... (9) 2. ...in pot created from old place in the north (3) 3. Got together and experienced one narcotic (9) 5. Some economists, or some tarts in trouble (11) 6. Have nothing to win without one (3) 7. Another name for Clay (when down under) (5) 10. Some of the wiseacres roughly aim at the ball, when volume’s increased (9) 11. Donne, deep in concentration, somehow penned ode without restrictions (4-5) 14. Knight has the item of equipment (3) 15. Put down a song (3) 18 and 23a. A way to tell with dash that some decor is terrible (5,4) 21. Tool found among the rawlplugs (3) 22. Fish on the end of one’s reel (3) |