Clues
Across
- 1 Initial success fundamental to achieve goals (5)
- 5 Reset scattered ashes, perhaps (5)
- 6 Maybe news to me - funding issues from East to West (5)
- 7 Psychic disturbance, blowing hot and cold? The former! (5)
Down
- 1 Terrible mess when top Tory’s involved in arrests (5)
- 2 Weirdo Conservative’s first to look up (5)
- 3 Ensure license coverage for antique (5)
- 4 Dissertation on drugs claim (5)
Setter’s notes
Here’s the usual wash-up.
Across
- 1 The initial letter of “Success” + “fundamental” = CORE — SCORE, “achieve goals”.
- 5 An anagram (“scattered”) of RESET — TREES, of which ashes are an example.
- 6 ME + “funding” = AID, from East to West (reversed) — MEDIA, maybe news.
- 7 An anagram (“disturbance”) of PSYCHIC, blowing (losing) H and C for “hot and cold” — SPICY. “The former!” tells you that the definition is “hot”.
Down
- 1 An anagram (“terrible”) of MESS, with the top of “Tory” = T involved — STEMS, “arrests”.
- 2 “Conservative’s first” = C + “look” = PEER, upwards (reversed) — CREEP, “weirdo”.
- 3 Hidden (“coverage”) in “ensuRE LICense” — RELIC, an antique.
- 4 “Drugs” = ES + “claim” = SAY — ESSAY, a dissertation.