CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Yet they are what you retire under, not in (10)

9. Not the sort of seat a helicopter would have!?? (7)

10. Spot the eyesore (5)

11. The flower of Ms. Black (5) 12. Regard downpour from two directions (6)

14. Landowners Anne left for other large areas (6)

16. Sailor smell, we heard, made him AWOL (6)

19. Ron gave up marathons because of this (6)

21. Around the start of the year Bali is found in this country (5)

24. Discovered, so bang the start button (3,2)

25. Display former greeting piece (7)

26. Franchise for drug pedlar boat? (10)

Down

2. Lured with efflorescent ice display (7)

3 & 18dn. Piles of floor covering. Who put them there? (6,6) 4. Rush in response to attack (5) 5. Reportedly greet Mr. Wilder in pristine conditions (7)

6. Drive out of revisited location (4) 7. Yells about the fireside equipment (7)

8. A bit of a hot place for Othello (4) 13. At Natal? No, Georgia (7) 15. Rotates the stone (7)

17. The Italian hobos in the ballet (7)

18. See 3

20. Therefore I see a chook on the church (5)

22. Degree by the young (4)

23. The cladding fell off the hut? (4)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Piping, 4. Slam, 8. Paring, 9. Strode, 11. Graphic design, 13. Eases, 15. Yeast, 17. Too-hard basket, 20. Melody, 21. Morass, 22. Dale, 23. Tendon.

Down: 2. Perhaps, 3. Ninth, 5. Lottery, 6. Maori, 7. Die, 8. Pigment, 10. Accords, 12. Notates, 14. Scandal, 16. Awkward, 18. Ogled, 19. Adore, 20. Mig.