CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. There’s never case for wriggling out of cut-off pay (9)

5. Give one a hitch to the West (3)

7. Relative to tease about losing head (4)

8. It is turning one gin into method of firing in an engine (8)

10. How to name a Tom – nine letters (8)

11. It appears, in Cyprus, to be where business is done (4)

13. Again say that it’s a second viewing (6)

15. It is bequeathed to the French in an uncultivated area (6)

18. Old jokes may be an indication of trouble afoot (4)

19. It will move side to side as it’s shaped like a swimmer’s rear (4-4)

22. Having the wrong idea, could create a stink with me (8)

23. Yearn to have more than the average number in a particular suit (4)

24. Everything is the same either side on court (3)

25. Arms of dead person that men set out around the church (9)

DOWN

1. It was a wrench when the pens ran haywire (7)

2. It was spite that made me no other way after five (5)

3. How to deny the unending teenage revolution (6)

4. It may be a misfortune to dwell upside-down (4)

5. It could rival it at being unimportant (7)

6. Is scared that it’s blowing up outside (5)

9. Work at making dough out of necessity, one is told (5)

12. Box for gift that might contain heroin (5)

14. Father taking solar arrangement that would protect him (7)

16. Much pleasure around 3rd August it held, perhaps (7)

17. Is up fast, and saying nothing (6)

18. A butterfly that may make one pause mid-sentence (5)

20. Nothing found in a bed made of sun-dried mud brick (5)

21. In short, cent has to be changed for ready money (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Potent 4. Secret 9. Overdid 10. Tabor

11. Iota 12. Burr 13. Due 15. Drip 16. Bank 19. Ill 21. Pole 22. Scan 24. Inter

25. Courier 26. Yarned 27. Ragged

Down 1. Profitability 2. Treated 3. Node 5. External 6. Rabid 7. Threecornered 8. Odour 14. Disperse 17. Kicking 18. Flock 20. Later 23. Pupa