CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Like ‘Some’ or ‘tee’ – when there isn’t any! (7) 4. Roman chapel to persist in explaining its contents (7) 8. The method, one is told, of being separated from Kurds soundly (4) 9. Mother-tongue, curiously, is what’s spoken here (10) 11. Bird wading back in absolute covalency (6) 12. Shrewd piece of academic research on what catches insects (3-5) 14. Fill-in typist with long lock of hair could be a siren (9) 15. What I believe is to have egghead in street recognition (5) 17. One to choose numbers, that is, after having modern half (5) 18. Don’t move about so much, being inefficient (9) 19. Make the appointment available: stamp not necessary (8) 21. Soundly pursued by the pure (6) 23. I am a character in G&S showing unwillingness to wait (10) 24. First, on the other hand, a word to lean on (4) 25. Disappeared, not having passed over at home (4,3) 26. Last longer, like a raincoat? (7) DOWN 1. Chateauneuf – Tyne version? (9) 2. Ordinary folk, such as live around Wimbledon? (3,6,6) 3. Happy to have half of Edna’s flowers (4) 4. Toc-H class I disrupted, being pedantic (10) 5. Do away with the odd bit left over (5) 6. Be plain: her spine has been straightened out, not understood (15) 7. Tree the kirk respects (5) 10. A nuisance the French have to follow its association with mortar (6) 13. Through half-sister, temporary dwelling has quality of keeping on (10) 15. Tune is that one may get, as jazz-fiend caught hippy extremes (6) 16. He doesn’t conform, so is dispatched in Red revolution (9) 19. An ally without one direction gets cooked (5) 20. Father with Spanish uncle in the yard (5) 22. Return sound with part of the tree chopped (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across: 1. Ambit 4. Break up 8. Breathingtime 10. Liken 11. Amps 12. Bead 16. Uredo 17. Investigation 19. Ledgers 20. Delve Down: 1. Ambassadorial 2. Bye 3. Tattle 4. Blinks 5. Engine 6. Knife-rest 7. Preponderance 9. Reprieved 13. Pursue 14. Remiss 15. Coward 18. Ill