CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Game disc and party drink may answer a blow (12)

8. I am one to rat maybe on one who copies me (8)

9. Enough commotion to cause that storm in a teacup? (4)

11. Order one to use icon like this (5)

12. Ban a sort of bream, and leave (7)

13. A host may march to 7 (4)

15. An error made by a man in the field (4)

19. Area showing how old the Metropolitan Police HQ is (7)

20. It will follow when Suez reveals it (5)

22. A song a fair alto gives one back (4)

23. An absolute sovereign took our Act at variance (8)

24. Robe with wrong designs for it (8-4)

DOWN

2. Bulb for adding flavour to one? No, no, that’s wrong (5)

3. Slightly different meaning nun gives ace perhaps (6)

4. Made a runaway success of marriage maybe (6)

5. Without pretence, it’s neither sharp nor flat (7)

6. Could be loth for penny change from the cornucopia (4,2,6)

7. Uniformed musicians have 13 soundly prohibited (8,4) 27/11

10. Decline to be involved in the Web beforehand (3)

14. Medical officer tries out tenon’s counterpart (7)

16. This is the day one gets what’s coming to one (3)

17. Might have this ticket for second match between same teams (6)

18. Have membership of Nobel? Good! (6)

21. Kate was a little mouselike? Well, no (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Cigars 8. Banjo 9. Contour 11. Painters 12. Byway

15. Welt 16. Ago 17. Oven 19. Skein 21. Carriage 24. Each way 25. Larch 26. Supper

Down: 2. Irony 3. Attracts 4. Soup 5. Ebony 6. Once 7. Moss

10. Rain gauge 12. Bowl 13. Bookshop 14. Anon 18. Fight

20. Image 21. Celt 22. Rare 23. Ears