CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Our veg, worth preparing if too highly excited (11) 7. A setback could be severe, though right to start off with (7) 9. It smacks of the second round of the circuit (4) 11. Softens Latin stem of it (5) 12. Tease lad about being blue (6) 14. Taken apart, died around those who belong somehow (11) 18. Go to bed, but don’t go back to work (6) 20. The picture one may get of an idol (5) 22. As roguish as what goes over one’s head (4) 23. Mounted sentry perhaps vetted expedition leader (7) 24. Maybe kicks a belt around a hundred fish (11) DOWN 2. Virginia might have been livid with the composer (7) 3. Dance held by a fly fisherman (4) 4. A jumping game that featured in the English almanac (5) 5. It’s the body of a game of snooker (5) 6. One in a suit found in the garden shed? (5) 8. Either one girl or two can be flavoursome (8) 10. A work of Stravinsky’s for the Baltimore Oriole (8) 13. In short, a measure of power acquired by a politician (3) 15. It’s lace that can be made to stretch (7) 16. Money, as produced by a loafer? (5) 17. Drain the second water-jug (5) 19. Puss turns to it without a word being spoken (5) 21. It is very bad to live it up (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 1. Malaria 5. Kudos 8. Logical 9. Owing 10. Dismissal 12. Tee 13. Tired 17. Ark 19. Mannerism 21. Least 22. Medical 24. Tweed 25. Dreaded Down 1. Malady 2. Legists 3. RAC 4. Atlas 5. Knowledge 6. Drift 7. Signet 11. Intimated 14. Evinced 15. Ballot 16. Smiled 18. Knave 20. Nomad 23. Due