CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

4/1

ACROSS

1. Mum, my lips are – with a loving kiss? (6)

8. It is the country’s business to swap it (5)

9. Stick it in the pie, crowd players are supposed to say (7)

11. Tripled it when about a thousand, but seemed fearful (8)

12. It is in Cornwall and tour may be taken right inside it (5)

15. You, being old-fashioned, might say ‘M’ in short (4)

16. Send ball high in the air, where this is the limit (3)

17. Spent some time in India, and she went back and forth (4)

19. Particular charges made for including a tree (5)

21. Reckon, on going, there’s not so much to make one foolhardy (8)

24. It can explode depot or get shattered by it (7)

25. Fifty fewer bits of snow show one is shamming (5)

26. Cutters one may be audibly aware of in a ship (6)

DOWN

2. One or the other one leaves, so it may put one out (5)

3. Maul about and burn tree that is decorative (8)

4. With no energy, tried to shift the muck (4)

5. They support flowers as one stops the flow (5)

6. Was ill: ends off with a sorrowful cry (4)

7. Some cattle one was soundly sensible of (4)

10. Baker’s fat used incorrectly with toast and marmalade? (9)

12. How one sums up the little people (4)

13. A day in May and, for Charles II, how galling! (3-5)

14. Spotted outcome that may be considered daredevil (4)

18. Squadron-Leader caught in AA fire may use it for refreshment (5)

20. Half the city had revolutionary backing for drink (5)

21. Right behind the ship there’s something floating (4)

22. What one can’t have and eat one may plaster on thickly (4)

23. They may toss around when they’re drunk (4)