CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Create an emotional response - as guitarists do (6,1,5) 9. Abstain clinic for human indulgence (13) 10. Not very hopeful 4 legged fliers (4) 11. Disparage devastated ET billet (8) 13. Has two carbon atoms so Don’t Look! - according to the song (5) 14. Building belonging to Dad’s brother Thomas (5) 19. Eli slips awfully and doesn’t complete sentence (8) 21. None is good (4) 23. Trapping axiom? Or only guessing? (13) 24. The paid up and initiated member was no spring chicken (5,7)

Down

2. Strangely tint hog this evening (7) 3. Bog girl (4) 4. Helena Melville has a type of paint (6) 5. 151 back in California left to be to the letter and unemotional (8) 6. Pieces of eight (5) 7. Is this bird sick? (6) 8. The extent of the copse (5) 12. Limits - sixty mph on Fourth of July for 3 movement piece (8) 15. List of some definite miserableness (7) 16. For the benefit of, let us divide by 2 (6) 17. . . . if Lila becomes befitting to a son (6) 18. Five autograph victory indicator or how Churchill held his cigar? (1-4) 20. Collar fold of is part of small ape ligament (5) 22. An amusing person may have one up the sleeve (4)

Yesterday

Across: 1. Red herring, 9. Fuchsia, 10. Guess, 11. Henna, 12. Seesaw, 14. Nutmeg, 16. Hassle, 19. Indigo, 21. Idiom, 24. Tie in, 25. Seaweed, 26. Woodcutter. Down: 2. Ensnare, 3. Hoarse, 4. Rogue, 5. Icecaps, 6. Gust, 7. Off hand, 8. Icon, 13. Bermuda, 15. Tangelo, 17. Agitate, 18. Corset, 20. Ionic, 22. Ibex, 23. Stow.