CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Minor, at my order, takes to marriage (9) 5. Make note of a whit (3) 7. Absence of American common sense? (4) 8. Supplier of caviare to operator – about time! (8) 10. It is sadly inadequate, the cap it replaces (8) 11. Business area that made it in Cyprus (4) 13. Take on staff, or my pole, for a change (6) 15. Argue the price with old woman with broken leg (6) 18. Golfer’s warning given when right among the enemy (4) 19. What impertinence, to put money on the cat in France (8) 22. Pertaining to 1 Across on prison in California (8) 23. It isn’t quick, one hears, to fruit on the blackthorn (4) 24. To make one black a sailor (3) 25. Will try out last word on time (9) DOWN 1. Make me plain sort of clerical vestment (7) 2. Put one’s faith in estate under management (5) 3. Set of clothes, no longer fashionable, will conform to figure (6) 4. This stick one can measure by (4) 5. Mocking, in France I reign mistakenly (7) 6. A bitter aromatic plant could turn nasty (5) 9. Sir, it’s Spanish though it might have been Norse (5) 12. Corrects schoolwork for Karl, say (5) 14. Somebody with one could put parent right (7) 16. Beg one to give ant tree to play around (7) 17. It will constantly worry one to be as rash as can be (6) 18. Surface on cut stone to be directed towards tabletop (5) 20. Possess about fifty and give twenty-five each? (5) 21. Has to have a smell of mould (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Supply 4. Teacup 9. Emotion 10. Erica 11. Pool 12. Spat 13. Ewe 15. Took 16. Zinc 19. Sad 21. Dole 22. Once 24. Orion 25. Zambezi 26. Enlist 27. Unclog Down 1. Stepping-stone 2. Provost 3. Lair 5. Electric 6. Chime 7. Peace-offering 8. Snips 14. Condones 17. Conceal 18. Glaze 20. Drill 23. Omen