CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. How to get the gen from one nation (11)

8. She can make it rain, hard, having a sharp tongue (8)

9. Go angling for the counter used in game (4)

10. Turns over round middle of passage to left-hand page

(5)

13. Devastation suffered as bear loses its head (4)

16. Some bad language to be taken in court (4)

17. With half-luck, be about to be one playing for university (4)

18. In the Lords he’s not quite before time (4)

20. One of the sides in a lawsuit has a convivial meeting

(5)

24. Is eleven, and French is around to make it leave (4)

25. Friend with a twisted tail in residence so sumptuous

(8)

26. It used it? Not if in such poverty (11)

DOWN

2. Standard exclusion of the Marines (4)

3. Chemical compound made bovine creature die out (5)

4. It signifies what one has to live on (5)

5. Gather it could turn fine by end of September (5)

20/7

6. Make the moon err (Celsius) with an accurate clock (11)

7. It comes suddenly and overwhelmingly with the lightning (11)

11. The time just before the bowler’s approach (3-2)

12. Command has its own tidiness (5)

14. Looks so ill-favoured as to be threatening (4)

15. Be up and about in prison (4)

19. Plant a goodly quantity on you and me (5)

21. Some of it isn’t together (5)

22. Motor put up in race in a stretch of country (5)

23. In the Foreign Office one is at home to dry sherry (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Sinecure 4. Arch 8. Rod 9. Vague 10. Via

11. Perused 12. Roost 13. Partnership 17. Octet 18. Printer

20. Sac 21. Owing 22. Nut 23. Shed 24. Feckless

Down: 1. Script 2. Nadir 3. Rigid 5. Ravioli 6. Hearth

7. Refreshing 9. Visitation 14. Article 15. Boosts 16. Brutus

18. Prize 19. Tinge