CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

24/2

ACROSS

1. Frightened of races being thrown on the day (6)

8. Actually be changing sex with it (5)

9. Human nature had moon to play with (7)

11. Don’t forget to be concerned with one having subs to pay (8)

12. Put to sea, but not under sail (5)

15. One gets older for a long, long time (4)

16. Put question to a newt in the country (3)

17. A bit of opera in Italian Mary failed to start (4)

19. Hangs it out with a snap of the teeth (5)

21. A way to walk out of that op (8)

24. How rare to lie in, farther back in time (7)

25. Light form makes real difference around the South (5)

26. The condition might feel wrong with a non-drinker (6)

DOWN

2. Is unable to include Haydn’s first song (5)

3. Try acting to erase her version of it (8)

4. The entrance is where cross is put up (4)

5. High temperature made life very difficult inside (5)

6. In a pound I’m showing a leg (4)

7. Begin, but don’t finish, with an asterisk (4)

10. Ruin a test Dave devised (9)

12. Ongoing TV drama may be seen in a bar (4)

13. Iron glove with nut at leg to adjust (8)

14. Treat one as a sweetheart to a brewer’s mix (4)

18. A scintilla of initial satisfaction, and one can leave car (5)

20. It may relieve one at work to have a magic formula (5)

21. Go one behind another to make things smooth (4)

22. Expel American entry in Bible part (4)

23. Prince Henry took Falstaff’s first drawn hole at golf (4) SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Delibes 5. Disowns 9. Particles 10. Limbo 11. Cacti

12. Part-songs 13. Slap-happy 16. Ruler 17. Cider 18. Indelible

20. Rectified 23. Clasp 25. Antic 26. Inflation 27. Endorse

28. Extreme

1. Depicts 2. Lyric 3. Britisher 4. Salop 5. Destroyed

6. Silks 7. Women’s Lib 8. Sponsor 14. Abdicated 15. Primitive

16. Reluctant 17. Corsage 19. Expense 21. Incur 22. Defoe

24. Abide

Down: