CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Ignore redevelopment in this area (6)

8. Tidiness shown by a religious fraternity (5)

9. Jersey is, by error, to come into flower (7)

11. Soft soap is not so elevated by your leader (8)

12. It wobbles with a little explosive (5)

15. Strike up some space under the roof (4)

16. Starts swilling the yard, the place being filthy (3)

17. The reddish colour of a stretch of water (4)

19. The people in a firm may come to the support of a pilgrim (5)

21. Peevish suit a cop makes up (8)

24. Whipping it with a rope for making things fast (7)

25. Sign it’s right to leave after six (5)

26. A skit about a fisherman will be profitable (6)

DOWN

2. Pen not needed by girl to run off and get hitched (5)

3. Let us, in a way, separate it with a non-conductor (8)

4. He’s an unsophisticated fan who turns up holding one (4)

5. Excel, one is told – this being what one excels at (5)

6. Do nothing that might have led one astray (4)

7. Where a vicar was to pound it in a mortar (4)

10. Abundant fuel about pint (Latin) (9)

12. Stimulating shock is lot different after 1st July (4)

13. Arrow-maker joined Beaumont to write plays (8)

14. The ego of the Spanish in Sinn Fein (4)

18. Small brother at school is given a sort of key (5)

20. Made to pay if turning up at the wrong end (5)

21. Schoolboy warning of a hollow in the rock (4)

22. Come away with it after successful audition? (4)

23. Maize porridge US Uncle makes with phosphorus (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Collect 4. Hairpin 8. Guys 9. Endangered 11. Random

12. Smothers 14. Thousands 15. Trunk 17. Emote 18. Overruled

19. Ushering 21. Uncoil 23. Sentiments 24. Kiev 25. Tisanes

26. Demands

Down: 1. Cigarette 2. Laying-on of hands 3. Tank 4. Headmaster

5. Ingot 6. Perpetual motion 7. Nudes 10. Mousse 13. Encounters

15. Tiring 16. Kid gloves 19. Upset 20. Reign 22. Stud

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Superficial 8. Retract 9. Adage 10. Poll 11. Nourish 12. Sod

13. Magi 15. Rage 17. Guy 19. Replete 20. Urge 23. Stout 24. Skilled

25. Experienced

Down: 1. Seraph 2. Petal 3. Roam 4. Intend 5. In a hurry 6. Leasing

7. Crèche 12. Sidestep 14. Approve 16. Crisis 17. Geyser 18. Wedded

21. Relic 22. Cite

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