CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. Counting the system of crime, it could be about time (6) 8. Mate to duck a flat stone (5) 9. Carefully study the class that will toe the line (7)
11. Labour, nonetheless, to half-number a flowering tree (8)
12. Will yield to another only to put it off (5)
15. Fish with a tail that spells the end of movement (4)
16. How to cook all those fish of the future (3)
17. It’s time one left a voluptuously alluring woman (4)
19. Where there’s fire it will sound discordant (5)
21. Loosen one’s grip on property ownership (8)
24. It has caught Sol and makes it hot for us (7)
25. Gong that signifies repast around beginning of December (5)
26. Start blazing at the family, being led astray (6)
DOWN
2. Edward the First would run to get married (5)
3. Flier turning to chap who has a gun (8) 4. Dog to start licking a ringlet (4) 5. There’s nothing grim but the smell of it (5) 6. Being pale, put one in the wagon (4) 7. Look very pleased to see a length of timber (4) 10. From steam, rail turned to textiles (9) 12. Pack of cards with which to floor one when at sea (4)
13. Designer of furniture another’s capable of becoming (8)
14. Being accurately adjusted, it is constant (4) 18. She will shortly get fired perhaps (5) 20. Walter didn’t have the energy to go fishing like this (5)
21. Celebrity might give me a fat head (4) 22. Boy who does the rounds in the water (4)
23. Held us knowingly inside at twilight (4)