Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS :

1 Palm Beach. 6 Art. 8 At once. 9 Badge.10 Sacred. 11 Egghead. 13 Macabre. 16 Salami. 18 Lingo. 19 Unfurl. 21 Ski. 22 Decreased.

DOWN :

1 Pet. 2 Lunar. 3 Blender. 4 Air bag. 5 Handle. 7 Treadmill. 8 Assembles. 12 Gesture. 14 Candid. 15 Biopic. 17 Lifts. 20 Red.

DOWN

1 Wife dishing up quail, boiled? This’ll be needed after meal (7-2,6)

2 Stiff old boy in trio played intro

to Chopin (7)

3 Study hard stick, cryptically?

(3,2)

4 Group of miners muse on

right part of fraction (9)

5 Tribal chief, ambassador and

publicist (7)

6 ‘The Thief of Time’ in a strip

cartoon version (15)

7 Allow former England football manager to drop wings . .

. (6)

8 . . . to boot a trendily dressed

chap (2,4)

16 Square circle, one out of

kilter (9)

18 Pacific island that I twice

represented (6)

19 Repeats broadcasts about

prince (7)

21 Rice? Sampan regularly

brought in a bit illegally (7)

23 Scene devised to maintain

international relations (6)

25 Ring secretary to welcome

first lady for work, 25 (5)