Cryptic Crossword

ACROSS

1. Angus to display a little hearty enjoyment (5)

4. Rearing up when more irate (7)

8. Ordinary to rage again Eva when turning up (7)

9. Won out again Ed when possessed (5)

10. Many see youth go to umpire (7) 12. Actors point to class system (5) 14. Performer gets Joplin’s ragtime piece (11)

18. Finish with bottom in the air? (3,2)

19. Peeling back a must as gets citrus fruit (7)

21. Farewell die covered in gold (5) 23. Don’t vote on All Black’s first mark (7)

24. First Britain eldest and most self-assured (7)

25. Nice to go around Orient with female relation (5)

DOWN

1. Prepare for a purge again (4,2)

2. Got more inclined to lead steed around pen on east (9)

3. Talk with zero speed (5)

4. Wonder when to oar noisily (3) 5. Coaching without a stew of

Italian dumplings (7)

6. Alternatively disown small charged particle (3)

7. Make amends for me and deer behaving badly (6)

11. Pays attention to musical figures (5)

13. Please cut again and make an assumption (9)

15. English husband or wife to make one’s own (7)

16. Smear Aubrey half going to bed (6) 17. Hitchcock thriller to remain disturbing (6)

20. Try dropping right to get son from boxer (5)

22. I will shortly be unwell (3)

23. Not initially daft to be towards the back (3) Solution in next month’s issue.