CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Wearing a beard where kids are around (9)

5. An objection to an outer room in Scotland (3)

7. Invalid diet for soaks (4)

8. It may be imparting a slant on fishing like this (8)

10. Their delivery being crude, they will lose out (3-5)

11. Let it stand correction of a correction (4)

13. Woodcraftsman who was an artist (6)

15. Cricketers in the field one commands with a weapon (6)

18. Two hogsheads may be filled with tobacco (4)

19. How to offload bun under difficulty (8)

22. Magnificent, the way rogues go astray (8)

23. Do nothing on the motorway to condemn one (4)

24. It signifies agreement in every Esperanto rendering (3)

25. There should be no danger of one getting the point of it (6,3)

DOWN

1. What may be nothing to us is a complete failure (4-3)

2. Instigate one to give me lip like this (5)

3. A small wave from 18 Across moving left and right (6)

4. Say one didn’t disown one (4)

5. Show one’s annoyance at blister it causes (7)

6. One is too concise to be intoxicated (5)

9. The left always bar control (5)

12. Marsh, being American, is not the real thing (5)

14. Files a news story on explosive noises (7)

16. Bringer of sleep to the fellow on the beach (7)

17. Fun had with broken leg may swallow one up completely (6)

18. A little gluttonous, where toes are concerned? (5)

20. Between doctor an operation, nothing must grow faint (5)

21. They make up a match as one lays the table (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Bodice 4. Canvas 9. Anchovy 10. Lover 11. Dime

12. Grit 13. Dun 15. Leek 16. Aver 19. Ion 21. Eels 22. Full

24. Orbit 25. Gladden 26. Swells 27. Meddle

Down: 1. Branding-irons 2. Decimal 3. Crop 5. Ablative

6. Vivid 7. Spring balance 8. Myrrh 14. Pedestal 17. Rounded

18. Flags 20. Noble 23. Fare