CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Containers one stores up within one (7)

5. Chances taking out the right skis (5)

8. A bit of glitter to sprinkle with the stars (7)

9. Oneness gives one chance of taking work to port first (5)

10. Got in touch with company as National Theatre took part (9)

12. What is jumped when false start is made (3)

13. A swollen sort of root sounds as if it might be blown (5)

17. It’s a great success, the bullet that finds its mark (3)

19. It is as frank as a speech made al fresco (9)

21. Fashion that would be indefinite with a substitution for nothing (5)

22. It is of trifling importance thus to trail it around six (7)

24. They may be spent, but not as musicians utter them (5)

25. It sprinkles flour on top, or digs it up from the bottom

(7)

DOWN

1. Bites carbon in order to cut it in two (6)

2. One who is under instruction in a tree, perhaps (7)

3. One event in the contest may give one some support (3)

4. It will come down hard on one, to set about the French (5)

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5. There and back (but not without taking the curves) (5,4)

6. A smart sort of wound from an insect (5)

7. The adage one is giving voice to (6)

11. She has committed herself to print (9)

14. Dim suspicion that the king gets nil in exchange (7)

15. Have to be taken between the poles without a beard (6)

16. Has learnt about a bony structure ahead (6)

18. Is squiffy, and mean with it (5)

20. Carried it to Mr Heath (5)

23. Diamonds are carbon: that is about it (3) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Poppy 4. Straits 8. Pound 9. Corsica 10. End

11. Lightship 12. Airs 13. Itch 18. Doctorate 20. Ado

21. Actuary 22. Duple 23. Turns in 24. Rides

Down: 1. Pepper-and-salt 2. Plunder 3. Yodels 4. Socage

5. Rarity 6. Irish 7. Sharpshooters 14. Trapped 15. Morals

16. Canyon 17. Sender 19. Cater