CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

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. For the bird, it isn’t enough to show off (4)

16. Produce tears at the street seller’s call (3)

17. It is so bad, to have one’s existence 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. Judging one’s arrival by adjustment of car engine (6) DOWN

2. Social outcast will turn up and be off-putting (5)

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

4. One may sound like a rotter, but will get better (4)

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

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

7. Didn’t take the sinister direction (4)

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

12. How to be effusive with hugs (4)

13. Foucault’s device might end up on a chimney in Scotland (8)

14. Modelling material is so cold and lifeless (4)

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

20. Carrying cargo will lend a different aspect to it (5)

21. Cockney gets his China tea from Paraguay (4)

22. Reports on current affairs come from all directions (4)

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