CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

2. Go up and get caught by the leg (5)

5. Ring Turkish governor – go on, do it! (4)

7. Fail to include one with cat, perhaps (4)

8. Don’t have to have so much, since it’s superfluous (8)

9. Got a fix, by a fluke? (8)

11. It’s fit to be a hole with something at the bottom of it (4)

12. Zip or cinch? He’s in two minds, perhaps (13)

15. Cards that win points on court (4)

17. Is being electric something dreadful? (8)

19. This attaché has a sect on the river in Russia (8)

21. Victim of hook-up, with bigger fish in mind (4)

22. Once round the track after Coe initially: applaud that (4)

23. Tree that, of two, was here first (5)

DOWN

1. To have a devil in charge is supernatural (7)

2. Reduction in expenditure available at hairdresser’s (3)

3. ‘To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the ____ man’ (S Paul) (5)

4. Cross measure of the staff of life: this is missing (7)

5. Of the Remove, Bunter had low potential (3)

6. Some support necessary to Lease-Lend operation (5)

10. Greets such tones as are a hard comedown (5)

11. Reckon on quitting the West first, this having been destroyed (5)

13. Keep an eye on former schoolfellows, ever-changing (7)

14. Such as the Lamb and Flag – or the Dog and Duck! (3-4)

16. Without mercy, credit is universally given to the Spanish (5)

18. Bribed to be well away? (5)

20. Sort of dancing Indian malarial fever (3)

21. Except for a piece of soap to shut one out? (3)

MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Absurd 8. Round 9. Stabbed 11. Separate 12. Sheet

15. Evil 16. Ode 17. Open 19. Forge 21. Hand-cart 24. Yearned

25. Order 26. Mowing

Down: 2. Batch 3. Umbrella 4. Does 5. Break 6. Puma 7. Idle

10. Desk diary 12. Seek 13. Tomorrow 14. Knee 18. Score

20. Green 21. Hoop 22. Nods 23. Term

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MONDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 7. Booked 8. Source 10. Intrude 11. Ratio 12. Gush 13. Bleed

17. Saucy 18. Wake 22. Ideal 23. Trooper 24. Shiver 25. Unless Down: 1. Abridge 2. Contest 3. Debut 4. Journey 5. Trite 6. Felon

9. Replicate 14. Vaulted 15. Sampled 16. Depress 19. Tipsy 20. Eerie

21. Round

MONDAY’S SOLUTIONS