CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Among the sheep, is dressing a sort of gun (9)

5. A carrier who didn’t start on the day (3)

7. In Athens I discovered a jot (4)

8. They are very small in their pride (4,4)

10. Picture how like one it can be (8)

11. Remain to give one some support (4)

13. How to get me over to take it away (6)

15. Half of a pom-pom? (3-3)

18. It is like a bulb, in garlic or mushroom (4)

19. Clavier: perhaps it’s about time it was straight up (8)

22. Can be counted on to supply beer: all one can use (8)

23. It is just that she’s a mother to the French (4)

24. Much may come under an auctioneer’s hammer (3)

25. She’s in the family mink now, as it turns out (9)

DOWN

1. Swimming limb for one quietly to pilfer (7)

2. Bury one in the midst of getting prefixed (5)

3. Where it starts in giving welfare payment up first (7)

4. The mental twist is a bit thick in kleptomaniacs (4)

5. Frequented by a parent’s sister, he’d got around it (7)

6. Having a film that isn’t clean (5)

9. One may be 5 Down by this accent from beyond this (5)

12. May be reddish-brown if out of practice (5)

14. Swallow without feet allowed to follow electric vehicle up (7)

16. Having gone wrong, everything was put in a treasureship (7)

17. It was a wizard little falcon (6)

18. There may be a reef of gold in State (5)

20. It is the best sort of dairy product (5)

21. How an object will disappear at a leisurely pace (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Tariff 4. Tomcat 9. Minimum 10. Tiara 11. Ally

12. Sari 13. Elf 15. Tome 16. Herb 19. Rib 21. Limb 22. Mimi

24. Irate 25. Selfish 26. Eldest 27. Meshes

Down: 1. Time after time 2. Ringlet 3. Fame 5. Obtained

6. Craze 7. Traffic lights 8. Smear 14. Smelters 17. British

18. Amuse 20. Bland 23. Blue