CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1. My son’s uncle may warn her, to Lib confusion (7-2-3)
8. Living on the shore and making it rot all round (8)
9. Not a companionable number of string players? (4)
11. It is hard by the cathedral precinct (5)
12. Descriptive term for pi, in the teeth of it (7)
13. First of rice in Chinese cooking-pan to ferment (4)
15. One’s pedigree may be put in the boot (4)
19. A testimony to the butter I use for it (7)
20. He’s a brother to a parent (5)
22. It may hold a skirt wide for the croquet arch (4)
23. How strange it may be to be pre-eminent (8)
24. Where one can relax at last – in the grave! (7-5)
DOWN
2. Proportion of air to the mixture (5)
3. It does a little digging to make top of trench lower (6)
4. Glossy surface man turns up in fish (6)
5. Dog that used to be a glutton (7)
6. Fruit of heath plant it’s worth Beryl re-planting (12)
7. He’s looking for the time to down tools (5-7)
10. That is to say to such a humorous person (3)
14. Bringing about collapse in US, our version of it (7)
16. Begin to develop a taste-organ on the tongue (3)
17. In view of gene, is prepared for it (6)
18. Club, for example, could lose nothing like this (6)
21. Abdominal pain has some E. coli connection (5)
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Carpet 8. Curia 9. Rostrum 11. Rounders 12. Berth
15. Solo 16. Fix 17. Lull 19. Shape 21. Decanter 24. Dabbled
25. Fever 26. Kitten
Down: 2. Above 3. Potation 4. Tour 5. Scone 6. True 7. Bass
10. Mortified 12. Bash 13. Alphabet 14. Flue 18. Snort 20. Piece
21. Duff 22. Cove 23. Rank