CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. In the ascendant mode, print an altered form of it (11) 8. Ring one in two ways cleric might take (8)

9. A strain of character that takes blood to the heart (4)

10. A brief, non-u, Tuscan revolution (5)

13. Go back inside the French theatre box (4)

16. One may stagger around with a bit of film (4)

17. Hurry up with the bribe! (4)

18. Round of duty that’s yours and mine, on time initially (4) 20. Put this hut up to live together unmarried (5)

24. How could one dispossess one in a famous test-case? (4) 25. Swamp one with tuna, and dine out (8)

26. Lido chap may pick out from his chalet here (7,4)

DOWN

2. It is as hard as some music (4) 3. Architectural order one portrayed in twisted cord (5) 4. Ogen is available in some London shops (5)

5. A block of bone in the ear (5)

6. The profanation of Creed is not a possibility (11) 7. Meet a branch that assembles in the waiting-room (11) 11. Finally (almost) he had the world on his shoulders (5) 12. Got an alternative mode of transport in India… (5) 14. … which was alternative to a Latin examination (4) 15. He is an admirer of the foppish dresser (4)

19. A deserter the Spanish related to a glutton (5)

21. Dye a heathen nation keeps for the hair (5)

22. He sees no good in democracy, nice though he is (5) 23. Something soothing with 14 for the castle (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Paginate 4. Pick 8. Log 9. Dower

10. Set 11. Creased 12. Delve 13. Double-agent 17. Chary 18. Protest 20. Ail

21. Nones 22. Awl 23. List 24. Slattern

Down 1. Policy 2. Gigue 3. Towed 5. Insulin 6. Kitten 7. Prodigious

9. Disobeying 14. Oracles 15. Scrawl 16. Stolen 18. Panel 19. Erase