CLEVER CROSSWORD CLUES II

1. Noah's son keeps a realm together
2. Author Ferber ties up world group
3. Necessity's mate
4. They have horns and charge
5. Hair splitter
6. Georgetown romance component - or components
7. Choice between silver and gold
8. Contents of a prison library
9. Start of quote
10. Place to find a date
11. Earth without art
12. Go over the line
13. Shakespearean decision on Star Trek 
14. Builds a road into eternity
15. OK, for example
16. 24-karat keister
17. Uses dangerous wordplay in Kindergarten
18. Quest for the unknown
19. John, to Ringo
20. Be in bees
21. Beat back middle age
22. Money to go
23. Stops on the way home
24. Thing in doubt
25. Take the wrong way


Answers:

1. BRITISH EMPIRE  (SHEM)
2. UNITED NATIONS  (EDNA)
3. MOTHER OF INVENTION 
4. TAXIS 
5. PART 
6. GUYANA GIRL 
7. EITHER ORE
8. PROSE AND CONS 
9. BRITISH WAITING LINE
10. CORNERSTONE 
11. EH 
12. REHEARSE
13. TO BEAM OR NOT TO BEAM 
14. TARS AND STRIPES FOREVER 
15. CORRAL 
16. THE GOLDEN HIND 
17. PUNS WITH SCISSORS 
18. ALGEBRA 
19. LOO 
20. SPELL 
21. HOLD THE FORTY
22. SEVERANCE PAY 
23. BASES 
24. SILENT B 
25. STEAL