CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Strip off, strip on here (8-4)

8. He tells of the rubbish an island put back (8)

9. How one will begin to move prison (4)

11. Men lose their head over a girl, and then what will happen? (5)

12. Fifty? Pity me – so upset with vacuity! (7)

13. In which to display such things as one got from bed? (4)

15. Nought re-entered in short weight reverse (4)

19. Half the room involved in din injurious to health (7)

20. A sound system forged by one duo after a start (5)

22. Eye part that’s bowed in the sky (4)

23. For as long as it lasts around it, possibly (8)

24. They sing of darkness at home with things met office warns of (12)

DOWN

2. With initial hostility prepares to fight and does damage (5)

3. Reduced the distance between ’e and ’er, it might be (6)

4. Did something pressing, having washed (6)

5. Remote as the chance of not being indoors (7)

6. Carousel will make one slightly intoxicated: take bypass! (5-2-5)

7. Bury airhole with one on, such being mediator’s job (12)

10. He’s out looking for secrets, probing youthful beginners (3)

14. Society is sickly, messing about in boats (7)

16. Tooth: perhaps it ate to turn something over in the mind (3)

17. A spangle is upsetting to five sibs around the East (6)

18. This republic a small country – and bent? (6)

21. I have to follow medical person to urge one along (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Absurd 8. Round 9. Stabbed 11. Separate 12. Sheet

15. Evil 16. Ode 17. Open 19. Forge 21. Hand-cart 24. Yearned

25. Order 26. Mowing

Down: 2. Batch 3. Umbrella 4. Does 5. Break 6. Puma 7. Idle

10. Desk diary 12. Seek 13. Tomorrow 14. Knee 18. Score

20. Green 21. Hoop 22. Nods 23. Term