CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Will initially permit one to overindulge in emotion (6) 8. Get to an arm’s-length (5) 9. Colour new money won’t produce (3,4) 11. Forlorn way to lose out in an assignation (8) 12. Porn is not for the immature (5) 15. In France we show common sense (4) 16. Play part in two senses (3) 17. Competitive speed trial for ginger rootstock (4) 19. Follow one from root to flower? (5) 21. Bring about convert one made of it (8) 24. North south east and west, win or place (4,3) 25. Lac one is able to rinse out (5) 26. Then, as it might be, hurry up (6) DOWN 2. Was sick of a girl turning up (5) 3. Ecstasy for example is all that’s needed to make it lawful (8) 4. Such a card will do for anything savage (4) 5. Professional talk doesn’t begin with gas (5) 6. Festive occasion for Georgia and a city in California (4) 7. He put in germanium for clarified butter (4) 10. There’s something wrong with vice feted in such a way (9) 12. She and Mum may be siblings (4) 13. One left the circus perhaps hobbling on them (8) 14. Two gallons may make a horse stumble (4) 18. The daily routine is to turn corn into flour (5) 20. Agreement letting one see a novice driver manoeuvring (5) 21. Computer’s memory is at the heart of the matter (4) 22. Is soundly acquainted with the bouquet of wine (4) 23. East has a church for every individual (4) SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across 8. Overseen 9. Elicit 10. Interpreter 11. Sky 13. Guppy 15. Statutory 17. Flight recorders 19. Condition 21. Forms 23. Sty 24. Emendations 27. Minion 28. Eyeliner Down 1. Eventual 2. Tree 3. Tempo 4. Under-the-counter 5. Retention 6. Gin 7. Bicker 12. Studio 14. Pagoda 16. Statement 18. Reminder 20. Obtain 22. Wafer 25. Iris 26. Pin