Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS:

1 Harness. 5 Nape. 7 Pop. 8 Snatched. 9 Large. 10 Deem. 13 Like. 14 Seep. 18 Earn. 19 Utter. 21 Suitcase. 22 Kit. 23 Hear. 24 Extends.

1 Hopeless. 2 Repartee. 3 Ensues. 4 Shandy. 5 Nickel. 6 Poet. 11 Mistaken. 12 Detritus. 15 Patter. 16 Invade. 17 Rupert. 20 June.

DOWN:

Batsmen end idly, running in

distracted fashion (14)

9 Return, avoiding first exit (6)

10 Maybe Gibraltar and Spain

test use of missiles (8)

11 Lawyer Yate ordered to collect rent (8)

13 Saddle bay under ground (6)

15 They’ve got thick skins playing horns, one assumed (6)

17 Annie perhaps, or ghost

abducting cat (6)

19 Seafood fraud on page one

(6)

20 Rabbi led cast but he didn’t

rehearse his speech (2-6)

22 Irish spirit comes in through

eastern state (8)

24 Deny what secret agent carries back (6)

26 Officer moves to Sinai, making vague statement (14)

DOWN

1 Focus on GP’S business that

improves shots (6,8)

2 Fair, for one, is allowed to be

shortened (4)

3 College boy’s organisation of

public workers (6)

4 Fire lawyers around noon eating here? (5,3)

5 Kelly’s unit that’s passed on by

parent (4)

7 It’s my right to keep painting

constant moaner (6)

8 Resetting a line mistakenly

where colon appears (5,9)

12 Writer’s round the bend after

work? This calms him (5)

14 Man’s in pub, falling over?

This clearly hasn’t worked (5)

16 Eastern exam involves one

hospital department (8)

18 Trip in wild Africa’s about to

be scrapped (6)

21 Left with golden carriage (6)

23 Originally glacier largely

eroded northern valley (4)

25 Dour German border (4)