CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

6/2 ACROSS

1. Has a sensation leg isn’t set correctly (7)

5. A lot of insects go south to the comfortable heat (5)

8. Go back over one’s steps to the rear, etc (7)

9. Sex, it may be, is necessary to have actual being (5)

10. It gets a pasting before it’s hung (9)

12. Schoolmaster held back by Irishman (3)

13. At which chef may prepare the whole gamut (5)

17. Read it the way it is written in a musical (3)

19. The principal will set off with an initial advantage (4,5)

21. Former partner, due for a change, has to sweat it out (5)

22. Give Sam a gin from the pipeline (3,4)

24. Where Americans get trained in regimental headquarters (5)

25. Understood what an acrobat did (7)

DOWN

1. If unhorsed, it’s worth changing first nag (6)

2. Ted, lent some change, got stung (7)

3. Half-a-league of open country (3)

4. Animal whose shank sailor will consider knotty (5)

5. Sort of crane here’s got broken pins (9)

6. It gives one a different sort of calling (5)

7. Uses car or soft-top following vehicle test (6)

11. Ten-p charm got from a manuscript (9)

14. Marine defence, in law, sale is arranged for (3,4)

15. Dances about in order to go up (6)

16. Having been pelted, got smashed (6)

18. Walk heavily, like a clot (5)

20. Some particular Gothic slang (5)

23. The whole lot sounds like just a bit of it (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION Across:

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