CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. A sense of which enables one to see the joke (6)

4. A crazy person in a mac is turned out (6)

9. Ten, on joining, need this to fit into (7)

10. Emerald is the thing to go for (5)

11. The original Arkwright? (4)

12. Fifty in an English river that’s making no waves (4)

13. It is also undesirably in excess (3)

15. What some pictures show is a long story (4)

16. Card game fiery monster will have in the garden (4)

19. A curtsy one takes swimmingly (3)

21. In which one is camping, or has mind set on it (4)

22. An unaccompanied game of cards? (4)

24. One more rate-change including ten (5)

25. In Pietro’s sin, Iolanthe discovered a composer (7)

26. The spirit is one I leave going east (6)

27. The middle put out not long ago (6)

DOWN

1. The milk of it makes mortals agreeable (5,8)

2. A resort where mother meets the king on the way in (7)

3. Is not well, and heartless, for one thing (4)

5. Reasoning it’s a row (8)

6. It is still in a muddle as to how to bury one (5) 17/7

7. In no too strict a fashion for one tying himself in knots (13)

8. Settle the loan concerning one’s wages (5)

14. Girl’s religious pamphlet may take one’s attention away (8)

17. Once it’s made, it can be kept or broken (7)

18. Be sound asleep? (5)

20. Walter took father to be a writer (5)

23. Man is involved in a tennis lesson (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Enhanced 7. Droll 8. Cygnets 9. Upstart 10. Toby

12. Equerry 14. Rowlock 17. Lima 18. Ringlet 21. Trapeze

22. Lover 23. Vendetta

Down: 1. Excite 2. Highbrow 3. Need 4. Ensure 5. Coda

6. Flatly 7. Dispute 11. Growler 13. Resident 14. Rarely

15. Kettle 16. Camera 19. Nave 20. Lard