CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Understands how inclusive it is (11)

7. The very outside text remembered as containing it (7)

9. When it’s finished, there’s too much (4)

11. A massacre flows with such a bath (5)

12. The fight Doré had with a shuttlecock (6)

14. Try looming around the East with the technical names for it (11)

18. Even a fellow may be granted amnesty (6)

20. Poet who gave one simple but contradictory answers (5)

22. Following the artillery, I’d gone on an incursion (4)

23. Lettuce it could be disastrous to come across at sea (7)

24. Be in the swim and retain a portion of chicken (4,7)

DOWN

2. Emerge in different order for the result (7)

3. The sheep we found among opponents at bridge (4)

4. Piece of turf dislodged by a little girl of about four (5)

5. Such plants are meant to go to pot (5)

6. Going light on the street (5)

8. Deny I’m no different from the version that Keats wrote (8)

10. Knock up a cavalry weapon, in a manner of speaking (8)

13. Somebody unspecified who is single (3)

15. Hot springs found in Iceland bathrooms? (7)

16. It’s a bright young fellow who can set things alight (5)

17. Custom by which American reaches maturity (5)

19. Both is and are intermingled to elevate one (5)

21. One such of Satan is a scapegrace (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Gumdrop 5. Minim 8. Enlaced 9. Datum

10. Straggler 12. See 13. Exact 17. End 19. Nevermore

21. Mania 22. Condole 24. Named 25. Ladders

Down: 1. Grease 2. Mildred 3. Roc 4. Pedal 5. Moderator

6. Notes 7. Mummer 11. Greenland 14. Provoke 15. Seaman

16. Recess 18. Denim 20. Vocal 23. Nod