CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. It will impede bunce Carmen makes of it (11)

8. Like barges, they are used by smokers (8)

9. It’s no good being conceited (4)

10. Stop uncertainly without beginning to change (5)

13. It could be got up by any other name (4)

16. One thing you make with wool, one hears (4)

17. Not so much, if not following the peacemakers (4)

18. Requests top of barrels to be removed (4)

20. Cease, when it’s about right, to sharpen razor (5)

24. Out on a leg on which one’s in hazard and alone (4)

25. Is wary of Caius, out for change (8)

26. The hours Sir spends correcting, getting him nowhere? (7,4) DOWN

2. Keeps on worrying one about horses (4)

3. To such time it partially split NUS up (5)

4. Push one’s way into saloon and give four away (5)

5. Verne wrote about when tomorrow comes (5)

6. Bear up: sell a version of it as it gives one joy (11)

7. Will diversify the way Peter rinses it out (11)

11. Light carriages, from which one was sprung? (5)

12. It flows from source to mouth (5)

14. Do as told, and get duck plus possible bye (4)

15. One may not sleep a one-eye-closed way (4)

19. Not having partaken of brose perhaps (5)

21. Instruct and discipline the retinue (5)

22. Composition equalling two trios and a duet? (5)

23. It is slow, and it’s a legless sort of lizard (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Disperse 4. Belt 8. Eye 9. Allow 10. Fun

11. Compose 12. Lance 13. Peripatetic 17. Miami

18. Chimney 20. Cha 21. Along 22. Ion 23. Seed 24. Feckless Down: 1. Drench 2. Steam 3. Salve 5. Effendi 6. Tender

7. Sweltering 9. Aboriginal 14. Emanate 15. Smacks

16. Hyenas 18. Clove 19. Naïve