CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Immediately this rag is made for a swell (8,3)

7. Take out another insurance policy to get over it (7)

9. End section of music had occasionally to be written back in (4)

11. Set straight profit made – about fifty (5)

12. Flowery sort of red (6)

14. Umpire not at variance with arrangement of numbers in set (11)

18. Respect one of the best trumps (6)

20. It satisfies me, breaking up the set (5)

22. Sound mad about a lively celebration (4)

23. In time, bar will change into a haven (7)

24. Intensive period of training might scare chorus into it (5,6)

DOWN

2. Take part wearing a hat recognisable by touch (7)

3. Any departure from European country can infect one (4)

4. Bottom level taken by one rising to speak (5)

5. Nothing drab about being strong in dialect (5)

6. How convenient it is to be so dexterous (5)

8. Poisonous move we French made (8)

10. A veteran clepsydra? (3-5)

13. How one used to climb to a filthy place (3)

15. Oppressive, the way our nose is put out of joint (7)

16. Tope like an extortioner (5)

17. American panel didn’t start with such money-lending (5)

19. At no time will the North veer round to it (5)

21. Fashionable section of machicolation (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Decorum 5. About 8. Monster 9. Union

10. Recommend 12. Gee 13. Raven 17. Elf 19. Universal

21. Plant 22. Outcast 24. Tardy 25. Yearned

Down: 1. Demure 2. Cynical 3. Rot 4. Morse 5. Abundance

6. Owing 7. Tender 11. Marquetry 14. Disdain 15. Teapot

16. Fluted 18. Flair 20. Ivory 23. Twa