CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Minor nobles who sing droll variations (9)

5. Machine that clears seeds to give trap (3)

7. Marconi never intended to include a baseball team (4)

8. How one renamed what was left standing (8)

10. Warp duly broken in an ascending fashion (8)

11. It will come down hard on one to be Mother (4)

13. Twofold apartment might have led up to Ten (6)

15. It's an inspiration to make her bat (6) 18. A course of action on vacation (4) 19. AA, 15 of which may be material (8) 22. It is possible to do it as belief is adapted to it (8)

23. Try to get compliments from a swimmer (4)

24. The pound to return as something auctionable (3)

25. It fires the main charge and will do a rotten turn (9)

Down

1. Dual arrangement with 5 Across may make one spiritless (7)

2. Wren went around end of Fire to renovate things (5) 3. Hypodermic with which to goad one (6) 4. A picture of a ginger biscuit (4)

5. Car suspended from balloon plying the Grand Canal? (7)

6. The lowest point it can drain into (5) 9. Produce dogs, say, of a certain sort (5) 12. Opportunity in showbiz comes in the intermission (5)

14. Neat spa taken apart by countryman (7)

16. Come to learn about the purple-flowering plant (7)

17. Formal dance and French dancing for the stage (6)

18. It is very bad, but legal, to be beheaded (5)

20. Entertainer takes one in to give him a lift (5)

21. Time done by a flier (4)

Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Entity 4. Gravel 9. Emotive 10. Fling 11. Tube 12. Wane 13. Gut 15. Envy 16. Mass 19. Sag 21. Rapt 22. Lava 24. Ovolo 25. Ringlet 26. Kisser 27. Vestry Down 1. Electric shock 2. Trouble 3. Thin 5. Rifleman 6. Vying 7. Light infantry 8. Feral 14. Evermore 17. Scarlet 18. Spare 20. Gloss 23. Once