CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

2019-08-23 -

ACROSS

1. So spies’ sons destroy the things one has (11)

8. How would poet rate a work such as Orpheus in the Underworld? (8)

9. It’s a sorrowful drop (4)

10. Ornithological baby-carriage (5)

13. Sister embraces nothing but the word (4)

16. It’s a race put back in the preliminaries (4)

17. Spat, if involved with the Financial Times (4)

18. It is near the time of darkness, almost (4)

20. A member of the monarch’s family in Troy, a Laodicean (5)

24. An expression for time at school (4)

25. No longer acknowledge cure: none is made up (8)

26. Procures me riches and goods like this (11)

DOWN

2. Anyone can enter if it’s not shut (4)

3. First sister cried as she did the housework (5)

4. Woodland god would stay around the right (5)

5. Will melt, topless, not infrequently (5)

6. A catmint one might infect one with (11)

7. Long-case clock for a forebear (11)

11. Neatness in Bath, say (5)

12. A little feline pool (5)

14. To come round, I’m turned over: leave it out! (4)

15. It will beat the put-up game (4)

19. Her old man initially a poet perhaps (5)

21. It’s a work sung by some who perambulate (5)

22. Voiced by a duo before lunch can start (5)

23. The responsibility, and where it falls apparently (4) WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Packhorse 5. Ebb 7. Iron 8. Appetite 10. Crevasse

11. Weak 13. Seldom 15. Patter 18. Some 19. Radishes

22. Raindrop 23. Once 24. Wig 25. Net result

Down: 1. Princes 2. Crone 3. Repast 4. Even 5. Eminent 6. Break

9. Canon 12. Latin 14. Limping 16. Respect 17. Cavort 18. Strew

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Across: 1. Grew 3. Censured 9. Abscond 10. Owner 11. Deliberately

13. Unties 15. Bitter 17. Easy on the eye 20. Bingo 21. Yielded

22. Sidekick 23. Edgy

Down: 1. Grandeur 2. Easel 4. Endure 5. Short-sighted 6. Ringlet

7. Dare 8. Gobbledygook 12. Friendly 14. Trained 16. In sync

18. Ended 19. Ebbs

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTIONS