CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Our Emir is to become deserving of praise (11)

8. Is daft about a down dill flower (5)

9. Young woman of the 1920s created panic for each (7)

10. Kiwi is Sinic for a gooseberry (7)

11. Satirical humour is a bit unfair on you (5)

12. Let man work it out if he’s mad (6)

14. Tell on one for returning collection-boxes to the church (6)

18. It is the devil of a two-pip card (5)

19. Some — not many — leavers dispersing (7)

21. The North might accede to rise and fall of the voice (7)

23. Play from the tee for a spin (5)

24. Lets one down, a pint: do sips amount to this? (11)

DOWN

1. A small amount of cod I keep quiet about (7)

2. A bully could have fun with the fair (7)

3. It is the hour, one is told, for the plant to be flavoursome (5)

4. It supports the roof, right, at a later time (6)

5. Speech showing proportion on being outside (7)

6. Take some liquid that starts seeping in, perhaps (3)

22/10

7. Fruit that grows among the September rye (5)

13. Save run being made from the entrance to the underworld (7)

15. The twisting in roots can be sorted out (7)

16. Assistants held person Don had left (7)

17. Pelleas may have lost first love being lost to the world

(6)

18. Furnishing effect may be, for the record, right away (5)

20. Telerecording will do: I’ve edited it (5)

22. A stumer could turn up just the same (3) SATURDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Comprehensive 9. Particles 10. Super 11. Irish

12. Folk music 13. Omnivore 15. Nitric 18. Nettle 20. Fraction

23. Euphemism 24. Buffo 25. Purse 26. Endurance

27. Dispassionate

Down: 1. Capricorn 2. Martian 3. Reich 4. Hellfire 5. Nestle

6. Insomniac 7. Exposer 8. Doric 14. Valueless 16. Cantonese

17. Bromides 19. Tapered 21. Infanta 22. Cinema 23. Expel

24. Burro