CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Fellow-worker coming from a university college (9)

5. It measures the pressure on the legal profession (3)

7. It sails the dark blue sea (4)

8. Refusing to handle old-fashioned stove-polish (8)

10. Take out India from part hearing (8)

11. Dawn is breaking and it’s given a magical wave (4)

13. The way dirt moves about without one being trumpery (6)

15. May have been hard up securing the seclusion of women (6)

18. The business area that is Eternal for Rome (4)

19. Recital may be given by a member of the family (8)

22. Could Paul have been responsible for such disruption? (8)

23. It matures, but it takes such a long time (4)

24. A friend to an American who has not yet blossomed forth (3)

25. Inlaid wood work given quarter-turn in my setting of it (9)

DOWN

1. Get in touch with one prisoner with diplomacy (7)

2. What covers the eye around four will look pale with anger (5)

3. Take along about a litre? No: more! (6)

4. Topless seaside location for every individual (4)

5. Highway robber had his outfit in a gang (7)

6. Grid one can break without bending (5)

9. How to get the Mrs to sound furious (5)

12. The picture on the wall that one didn’t have to hang (5)

14. Chat we’d had about the way one was under observation (7)

16. Integrity with which it grows in the garden (7)

17. Go to it, and mend it (6)

18. A shred of comfort one may get from a loaf (5)

20. Gold bar one obtained included nitrogen (5)

21. Will be unruffled in medical matters (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Insult 4. Mystic 9. Cracker 10. Adieu

11. Espy 12. Swan 13. Kit 15. Loom 16. Snub 19. Ink 21. Moat 22. Fino

24. Inner 25. Opiates 26. Yeomen 27. Patron

Down 1. Incredibility 2. Scalpel 3. Lake 5. Yearning 6. Trick 7. Country cousin 8. Frown 14. Commerce 17. Blister 18. Wagon 20. Kendo

23. Diva