CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Zealous diver turning after fish-head (6)

8. Stage of annual interest with no return (5)

9. Be made up of coins scattered on the street (7)

11. Violent youngster will speed off (8)

12. Room at sea for production of child, one is told (5)

15. The way in to the party obtained with gold (4)

16. Charles James might baffle one (3)

17. At one time weight was non-u (4)

19. Parking with alms distributed as choir sings it (5)

21. Being drowsy made moose act strangely (8)

24. Rare lie compounded beforehand (7)

25. Regulation right to be marked in inches and centimetres? (5)

26. Torn he may be by finding the sting in its tail (6)

DOWN

2. Hero decided to show how to wear it away (5)

3. They’re calling for Ross, it might be, after six (8)

4. Remove film – ‘Stud’, perhaps (4)

5. To bear a child and take it with one (5)

6. The crop of cereal first uncooked (4)

7. It’s very black at home, Kentucky (4)

10. Play for time as one tries poem out (9)

12. Did bid with graduate and got half the deal (4)

13. Of our man abroad our clans are concerned with (8)

14. A material join is the same only different (4)

18. The large shop in which it’s waiting for one (5)

20. A loyal subject, say, to be deceptive about (5)

21. Catch at small faults in the fish (4)

22. One can barely see the chilli and chocolate sauce (4)

23. Every one separately has a way of betting for win or place (4)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Gastric 5. Comes on 9. Vigilante 10. Ruing 11. Reindeer

12. Bullet 14. Right-hand 16. India 17. Glass 19. Retaliate 21. Turban

22. Headland 26. Opine 27. Passports 28. Stentor 29. Schemed Down: 1. Giver 2. Signing 3. Ruled 4. Candelabra 5. Chew

6. Mercurial 7. Stilled 8. Negotiate 13. Editresses 14. Righteous

15. Testament 18. Airline 20. Anagram 23. Depth 24. Dosed 25. Spar

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 6. Bayonet 7. Arced 9. Dew 10. Paternity 12. Permissible

15. Decomposing 17. Ill at ease 19. God 21. Cried 22. Capital Down: 1. Cagey 2. Fog 3. Beta 4. Transient 5. Fertile 8. Teases

11. Relocated 13. Mapped 14. Deplore 16. Local 18. Sham 20. Aid

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