Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS :

1 Warts and all. 7 Palm. 8 Fine leg. 9 Ode. 10 Theft. 11 Cherry. 13 Roster. 16 Piles. 18 Val. 19 Adverse. 20 Inch. 21 Nonetheless.

DOWN :

1 Wealth. 2 Rumour. 3 Safety. 4 Nonet. 5 Ailment. 6 Lighter. 11 Captain. 12 Enliven. 13 Revere. 14 Saline. 15 Erects. 17 Sprat.

DOWN

1 Liberal outlook tended to split

extensive headland (15)

2 In Yorkshire, how some say

the world spun round? (7)

3 Different soldiers collect

article (5)

4 Tough and no nonsense dreadnoughts wrecked, not tug (4-5)

5 I need this to drive Cecil bonkers about nurse (7)

6 His job in battle comes from

better research, right? (9-6)

7 Financiers in Zurich, some

receiving no messages (6)

8 Moderate salesman encountered heading north (6)

16 Dotty gran opted to become

child’s sponsor (9)

18 Hungarian army ordered to

arrest attorney general (6)

19 Wire enclosure protects

excessively small house (7)

21 It’s stuck in socket by everyone, according to Spooner (7)

23 English flower festival (6)

25 Ancient Greek version of

‘Room at the Top’? (5)