CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. One’s mental adjustment to fact of leaving one’s post? (11)
7. Come to blows in order to be tuneful, perhaps (7)
9. How to cook something one soaks in reverse (4)
11. Run off to make one of two (5)
12. Sits and thinks about lots of offspring (6)
14. How far until GCE can be seen quitting middle for outside? (11)
18. Beat it out of non-u bird the East has replaced (6)
20. Noble number involved in double-setting (5)
22. A friend will follow chorus-leader with wordless song (4)
23. On which to lie when putting plants out, perhaps (7)
24. In being a pal, is making a chum of one (11)
DOWN
2. To me, crumbled dish to start with will embody it (7)
3. They’re not for motion, but some of these only turn up (4)
4. Go one better than the dismissed party (5)
5. Was indebted to inclusion of the North, as one admitted (5)
6. The West is involved in craft from an Alpine region (5)
8. A learned bit of writing is at variance in the pedigree (8)
10. Having a foundation, in being forbidden to be airborne (8)
13. Product of the Stannaries can (3)
15. Sell off gold number, getting into change (7)
16. Used adhesive, so can’t find the answer (5)
17. About fifty cigarettes, and one droops (5)
19. Alternatively given up, habit may awaken one (5)
21. Be about love nothing ahead is instrumental (4)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Distaff 5. Tramp 8. Voucher 9. Irony 10. Underdogs
12. Elf 13. Larva 17. Aid 19. Grandsons 21. Glint 22. Piastre
24. Dread 25. Carry-on
Down: 1. Devout 2. Shudder 3. Ash 4. Forgo 5. Tries hard
6. Abode 7. Pay-off 11. Relegated 14. Shortly 15. Wagged
16. Astern 18. Drive 20. Aspic 23. Air