CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. One to give voice or resign in the confusion (6)

8. A drink one could die for, being in credit (5)

9. Thrust oneself on somebody or be bred out of it (7)

11. Elusive spy it would be peril to confound (8)

12. Franco-British articles from the river of forgetfulness (5)

15. Father has nothing on but a skirting of wood (4)

16. How not to be forward, and start in fright (3)

17. It is very bad for the Spanish around six (4)

19. Is crooked, like Botanical Gardens (5)

21. Great misfortune suffered by my cat, ail as it may (8)

24. A stay for my boy, about a day in France (7)

25. Alternatively one gets the French back to college (5)

26. Family being led astray, it may cause a flare-up (6)

DOWN

2. I’m to be about turn forbidden to fill one’s mind (5)

3. State of being childishly feminine (8)

4. Sticks to certain measures (4)

5. There is room to manoeuvre among disc operators (5)

6. Get gradually to one side to gain the advantage (4)

7. One carrier that will sound like three (4)

10. Help as net is put out for Jumbos (9)

12. In waiting, she may be working (4)

13. Paté soon made with help of this kitchen measure (8)

14. An outpouring from a pack animal that turns up (4)

18. Got a whiff of a salmon-like fish (5)

20. Sign on Nero might have been Latin (5)

21. One on the range who finds the company all right (4)

22. It comes from rail where beasts are lying (4)

23. It is yellow in a lay product (4) SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Socket 4. Scuppers 9. German 10. Belabour

12. Plutocrat 13. Noise 14. Standing-room 18. Shipping-lane

21. Ended 22. Relatives 24. Bandanna 25. Tinder 26. Disperse

27. Heaped

1. Signpost 2. Circular 3. Erato 5. Chesterfield

6. Plainsong 7. Erotic 8. Surrey 11. Grandparents

15. Dehydrate 16. Carved up 17. Censured 19. Webbed

20. Adonis 23. Tribe

Down: