CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A meal coming? A change for him, who thinks so big (12)

8. Point out how to die in act of revision (8)

9. One worshipped the old one in turn (4)

11. Knotty youngster taken on in reversal (5)

12. It shows the temperature of Hermes’ counterpart (7)

13. How it got up to the ceiling fitting (4)

15. Attar a boy takes either way (4)

19. Around the North, calico is made brief (7)

20. Arrest old boy for being one of great wealth (5)

22. Does such a story come from the heights of imagination? (4)

23. In its original state it is in pert form (8)

24. Click with vernal member of the Coleoptera (6-6)

DOWN

2. Finished the deed with nitrogen perhaps (5)

3. Her heartless clay was formed in a roguish way (6)

4. One — not me — could be punctual (2,4)

5. It’s not certain to develop into bud (2,5)

6. Dog that moves uncertainly, having a pain in the tummy (12)

7. They are used to eating late (6,6)

10. Essay what is subject for conversion (3)

14. As cruel and as unspiritual as can be (7)

16. Somebody indefinite, but singular (3)

17. It was a crab’s turn to be sacred in Egypt (6)

18. Eels in conflict will surround it with water (6)

21. Fish is, in short, splendid (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Sealed 8. Trade 9. Rhubarb 11. Trembled 12. Truro

15. Thou 16. Sky 17. Aria 19. March 21. Feckless 24. Torpedo

25. Oakum 26. Swears

Down: 2. Ether 3. Laburnum 4. Dart 5. Stump 6. Fall 7. Herd

10. Breakfast 12. Tots 13. Oak-apple 14. Rash 18. Flame

20. Cider 21. Foot 22. Cake 23. Sops