CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

▶ Across 1. Financial amends come in post an adjustment is needed (12)

8. Upset vet or run around (8) 9. Something to sit on and fill out (4) 11. Bend the leg Ken broke, and feel only half (5)

12. External view of exit to watch over (7) 13. They write his mightiness (4) 15. There's nothing at the end of countdown (4)

19. Money after working in a continental boarding-house (7)

20. Walk up and down if it has no route as a cargo boat (5)

22. Dance one may cotton on to (4) 23. Authorise a penalty in Ascot, turning north (8)

24. Minors or guys no pens can write about (5,7) ▶ Down 2. Very fat old bee swallowing sulphur (5) 3. Staple different parts of flowers (6) 4. Restricted in outlook with a right to be worn out (6)

5. Set one apart from it so ale can be brewed (7)

6. Mention of important people might mean taking a fall (4-8)

7. At Labour do, a group on a special assignment (7,5)

10. Story of being without alternative accommodation is swinish (3)

14. The musicians take water in France and bind the hair with it (7)

16. Mend something if up before ten (3) 17. It is inherent with nine at the sort-out (6)

18. Has in store some punishment for the old offender (6)

21. It may be the enemy who's so strange (5) ▶ Friday's solution Across 1. Sacred 8. Idiom 9. Bailiff 11. Telethon 12. Penal 15. Roll 16. Ink 17. Evil 19. Tinge 21. Fruitful

24. Satisfy 25. Waged 26. Kennel

Down 2. Aware 3. Reliable 4. Deft 5. Given 6. Pith 7. Amen 10. Felonious 12. Pore 13. Sedition 14. Flee 18. Study 20. Gaffe 21. Fawn 22. Urge 23. Lark