CRYPTIC CROSSWORD YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Slims 4. Stirrup 8. River 9. Replies 10. Van 11. Penitence 12. Task 13. List 18. Executive 20. Axe 21. Detains 22. Adieu 23. Yearned 24. Tweak Down 1. Shrove Tuesday 2. Invents 3. Scrape 4. Spring 5.

ACROSS

1. Gets done up, but collapses (7)

5. One is entitled to it, on the one hand (5)

8. Make a critical note and Frenchman will ask how (7)

9. Shame about the East showing such religious feeling (5)

10. People tied on the inside as one said in passing (9)

12. Some subversive attitude is seen to be corrosive (3)

13. Company twice reaches a conclusion that it’s the drink (5)

17. Be suitable as will clothes of the right size (3)

19. He has – but doesn’t suffer from – hives (9)

21. Throw one out and cast one down, beheaded (5)

22. Travelling grips a worthless woman (7)

24. ‘Through all the wild Border his _________ was the best’ (Scott) (5)

25. Target ring in two ways found by successful contestants (7)

DOWN

1. Fittingly adorn tailless comet, and be first (6)

2. Sticks me among the coins (7)

3. Latin? That is an untruth (3)

4. Took protest action in building? That’s material! (5)

5. Are tied up: in a way, one won’t acknowledge that (9)

6. These egrets flying up include other birds (5)

7. Sit in judgment on sots, nothing less, at such appointments (6)

11. Where Havana is, Edward shows how one led up to hatching (9)

14. Atone for being sanctimonious in form of exeat (7)

15. Expresses willingness to see chests topless (6)

16. One entering the church – and waiter – takes them (6)

18. The ones here have article on the Southeast (5)

20. What may be raised at the bar is crooked (5)

23. Open the throttle: it may get one shot (3)