Double trouble

Each clue leads to two answers which differ from each other by one letter. You must decide which is the correct one. For example, the two possible answers to 9A are RODEO and ROMEO — the answer to 6D will reveal which one is correct.

Solutions in Monday’s Irish Mirror

ACROSS

8 Title accompanying an illustration • Prudence, wariness ( 7)

9 — Drive, LA shopping street • Shakespearean lover ( 5)

10 Doctor Who cyborg •

Yorkshire —, national park ( 5)

11 Beatles hit ( 3, 4) •

Stumbling block, hitch ( 7)

12 Midwestern US state • Tiny amount ( 4) 13 Roused to violent emotion •

Filled with air ( 8)

16 Shining intermittently •

Rinsing the toilet? ( 8)

18 Fried potato slice • Slip, docket ( 4) 21 Formulas devised by chefs? •

Repeats from memory ( 7)

23 Timepiece worn on the wrist •

Break out of an egg ( 5)

25 One sixteenth of a pound •

— cap, headgear worn by a slow pupil ( 5) 26 Come together for a meeting • Community of nuns ( 7)

DOWN

1 In the centre of • Corrosive liquid ( 4)

2 Large wading bird with a curved beak • Regulation restricting movement after dark ( 6)

3 Original Sylvester Stallone boxing movie •

— Gervais, The Office star ( 5)

4 Warm and cosy • Garden pest ( 4)

5 Short spiky hair •

Crunchy toffee and peanut confection ( 7) 6 Communicate ( information) •

Bring into the country ( 6)

7 Confined in a pen • Concocted, invented ( 6, 2) 12 — design, home decor • Lower quality ( 8) 14 Grandmother • Scold continually ( 3)

15 Axe or helicopter • Come a —, fail badly ( 7) 17 Regional pronunciation • Receive, take ( 6) 19 Mad —, character Alice meets in Wonderland • Be of importance ( 6)

20 At the same time as •

High- pitched complaining cry ( 5)

22 Fall to the ocean floor • Unwell ( 4)

24 Detest • Tardy ( 4)