CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Hated to change right inside, there being so little of it (6) 8. Circumnavigator a suitable mate for 12 Down? (5)

9. Study class, toe the line (7)

11. Tree unfortunately to maul when about to put on bonfire (8)

12. Yield to authority and put it off for a while (5)

15. Cryptic language used back in the antiquated occult (4)

16. Contents of third month are, in part, circular (3)

17. Your and my hydrogen ahead: what time is it? (4)

19. For what we are about to receive – Miss Darling! (5)

21. Let go such grip as the householder might have (8)

24. Makes mock of what NASA does? (5,2) 25. An award for first of diners in middle of dinner (5)

26. Start blazing, the sort the French follow (6)

Down

2. The Queen, with poem to wear away (5) 3. Messrs Lee Enfield and Winchester, perhaps (8)

4. It's hardly a throw! (4)

5. Most of 17 is about a party – and it smells! (5)

6. Inexperienced when returning North to issue a caution (4)

7. Look radiant, being right out of fish (4)

10. Ship's officer upset sailor, nothing less, for such cloths (9)

12. Get down for mate of 8? (4)

13. The woman gets lowest point back from the playwright (8)

14. Regret following tail-end of regiment, to be honest! (4)

18. She will shortly lose apostrophe, and may explode (5)

20. After start of Christmas, Misrule was very unkind (5)

21. Am included in half the biography by way of notoriety (4)

22. It goes round and round in the wet (4) 23. Hides knowledge, only to reveal workplace (4)

Yesterday's solution

Across 1. Incorporate 8. Exposure 9. Able 10. Ashen 13. Ewer 16. Dill 17. Harm 18. Veer 20. Sheen 24. Ream 25. Overtime 26. Concentrate Down 2. Nape 3. Oasis 4. Purse 5. Abate 6. Pearl divers 7. Reprimanded 11. Hawks 12. Niece 14. Veal 15. Flee 19. Roman 21. Haven 22. Error 23. Riot