CRYPTIC QUICK

Across

1. An apparition one met in fury (6)

8. Form of sale that will start to encourage letting agreement (5)

9. More than ordinary place is put out for it (7)

11. It binds a melting form of it (8)

12. Happy to have the energy to get to the clearing (5)

15. & $ P *$ $ ^!_

16. K $ P call (3)

17. / $X P : reversed (4)

19. In a strange way old lady was abandoned by Los Angeles (5)

21. The unvaried utterance of Tom no one can interpret (8)

24. Do expel it so as to cause it to burst (7)

25. We throw in our lot with the drier (5)

26. | * * P X - } of car engine (6)

Down

2. ' putting (5)

3. It happens, by dint of nice arrangement (8)

4. ? - "get better (4)

5. Exult over old fourpenny piece, 7 for right (5)

Across

1. Sully (5)

4. Sturdy (6)

7. Mineral (3)

8. Sinful (6)

9. Mistake, failure (6)

10. Gesundheit (5,3)

12. K- ^!_

13. Weak or feeble (6)

15. Shortage (6)

16. Humorous image passed around online (4)

17. ? * ^_

19. Grating (6)

20. Diversion (6) #

6. It is a bundle of old misery (4)

7. P " $ direction (4)

10. Tribe that set out in line for the debauchee (9)

12. Z X $ hugs (4)

13. & P X *$ end up on a chimney in Scotland (8)

14. Modelling material is so

22. Lament (3)

23. K :- ^ _

24. Swift (5)

Down

1. K ` experimentation (5-3-5)

2. Kind (3)

3. Hot nightcap (5)

4. Spring back (7)

5. Standard for comparison (9)

6. Eloquent (6-7)

11. Spun (9)

14. Enigma (7)

18. Directive (5)

21. Lid (3) cold and lifeless (4)

18. A way of putting the gnomon on a sundial (5)

20. Carrying cargo will lend a ' ^ _

21. Cockney gets his China ` K * - ^!_

22. E ' come from all directions (4)

23. Leave stage to an extraterrestrial, when about eleven (4)