CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. In cost, Mum may find it different if red (9)

5. Cat’s legend for a light breeze? (3)

7. It runs in Italy in a particular notorious setting (4)

8. Sack-trees may be put to the flame (8)

10. Association of infantry going to a dance (8)

11. Greatest width of aircraft may enable one to put it across (4)

13. Hurried out a jolly old expletive (6)

15. Academician accepted by 18 Ac was sacred in Egypt (6)

18. One blacked over hurt (4)

19. Not being voluble, it makes comeback in the not-long-ago (8)

22. Italian capital’s spasmodic twitch may be fictitious (8)

23. Swift pursuit of ginger rootstock (4)

24. A cone producer to start 8 (3)

25. Wide between the ears? This is vegetable! (5,4)

DOWN

1. Was bantering corny, or husky? (7)

2. Person getting the green light where fruit is concerned (5)

3. Arrested motion (downward) seen when it’s freezing (6)

4. Such as 24 may show one’s pedigree (4)

5. Do well to be a traveller going back after professionals (7)

6. West One haunt of vice will not be so constricting (5)

9. Baby upset about the East in which monks are concerned (5)

12. It is pungent right in the middle of LSD (5)

14. One cannot easily say it, so to speak (7)

16. With one either side of beet, new variety is found (7)

17. Sheep in more mobile form (6)

18. A bit of a stroke where type-designer is concerned (5)

20. Wartime nurse, east first and last, might shirk duty (5)

21. The shoemaker is a townsman of Cambridge (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Candle 4. Ambles 9. Arrowed 10. Thumb 11. Glow

12. Liar 13. Hot 15. Show 16. Hang 19. Row 21. Bolt 22. Asti

24. Orion 25. Control 26. Speedy 27. Sticky

Down: 1. Changing rooms 2. Narrows 3. Lawn 5. Material

6. Laugh 7. Substantially 8. Admit 14. Combined 17. Gastric

18. Place 20. Whine 23. Knit