CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

28/5

ACROSS

1. Schoolteachers on retirement may be very skilled men (4,7) 7. Had another look at same work or altered one’s opinion (7) 9. Got back some great idea to prepare it for print (4) 11. Walk affectedly to prepare sausagemeat (5) 12. Something explosive one may make somebody pay (6) 14. Such printing should keep one’s correspondence flat (11) 18. Solicitous, to be dealing with Sunday joint without heart (6) 20. Muse traps Academician in veto that hasn’t been begun (5) 22. It’s nearly the spirit that has returned to Hydrogen (4) 23. Forcefully makes one’s point at home and is in the streets (7) 24. Right: if glue can’t make it, it’s fleeing the centre (11)

DOWN

2. Put forward an idea for money ahead of pay-day (7) 3. Helps one in sad arrangement (4) 4. Haggard one on 6 (5) 5. Coastal steamer to thrust between Turkey and Poland initially (5) 6. Sad at losing heart to Peg, the horse is spirited (5) 8. Edulcorates stew, seen to be different (8) 10. Takes a bit off the end, or then gets upset in craft (8) 13. A pack of hounds: it’s enough to make one weep (3) 15. In Wales, where aquatic bird is on the main (7) 16. It’s hardly enough to swing a cat with the Poles (5) 17. Unwelcome visitor: ours has no right to be among the French (5) 19. A sport for an elephant that’s savage (5) 21. 10 Down note to achieve this style (4)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Imputes 5. Idles 8. Partner 9. Viola 10. Carriages 12. Ewe 13. Tango 17. Rib 19. Necessity 21. Chide 22. Eminent 24. Dusty 25. Trestle

Down: 1. Impact 2. Portray 3. Ton 4. Shrug 5. Investors 6. Loose 7. Spares 11. Intensely 14. Evident 15. Braced 16. Myrtle 18. Bliss 20. Chest 23. Ire