CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

8/11

ACROSS

1. Very tiny crop is comic outcome of it (11)

8. Exaggerate one’s draughtsmanship and get into the red (8)

9. It’s non-u to use rouge, being a stern, monstrous person (4)

10. Geese flying in formation may pack in tight (5)

13. The time I left a voluptuously alluring woman (4)

16. Dogs and cats coming back on a walk (4)

17. Poet’s head-armour will give one directions if at sea (4)

18. Tear it apart right at the finish (4)

20. In a curious way the same backing is given idly as one goes (5)

24. Eton alters the sound of one’s voice (4)

25. Without knowledge, no rating can be made up (8)

26. Trouble-making, how can she nail girl? (4-7)

DOWN

2. Something that occurs to one when one is almost late (4)

3. Earth thrown up, part being lost by bird (5)

4. Form of language one warbled when about fifty (5)

5. Winnie held Christopher’s first dog (5)

6. Feel pity for apprentice chef eater put out (11)

7. Charge an accuser with crime in rate of exchange (11)

11. ‘Yellow-Dog behind’ (Kipling) (5)

12. Moved slowly to the side of group-leader in misdeed (5)

14. Do as instructed to get honour at start of year (4)

15. The average person around the East (4)

19. Stay on the subject of doll we put in for nothing (5)

21. Doctrine laid down one will faithfully follow to a degree (5)

22. How one regards one’s comeliness (5)

23. Be bored and move unsteadily north (4)

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Ptarmigan 5. Far 7. Quay 8. Fleeting 10. Audition

11. Used 13. Turtle 15. Grants 18. Fund 19. Dilation

22. Gracious 23. Fare 24. Erk 25. Retailers

Down: 1. Piquant 2. Award 3. Gallop 4. Noes 5. Frisson 6. Rigid

9. Stile 12. Break 14. Ransack 16. Sunless 17. Piquet 18. Fugue

20. Inane 21. Liar

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WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Asks 8. Elementary 9. Clothing 10. Then 12. Abhors

14. Ratios 15. Gusted 17. Resign 18. Idle 19. Velocity 21. Adolescent

22. Ergo

Down: 2. Spellbound 3. Sent 4. Begins 5. Beggar 6. Statutes 7. Hymn

11. Elongating 13. On the sly 16. Devise 17. Relied 18. Imam 20. Cite

WEDNESDAY’S SOLUTIONS