CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Is as lonely as royalist can be (8)

4. Go down piste on time for take-off (4)

8. Spirit of the Samurai returns in part (3)

9. Find an answer to love’s entanglement (5)

10. Neither is right on, reversing (3)

11. Having been put in glass container, could be drunk (7)

12. Gentleman in India who made a bish of it (5)

13. Street Arab gets up interchange (11)

17. Something worth having, like a collection of objects (5)

18. Are you heard to mis-label it as German measles? (7)

20. Infusion starts to exude aroma (3)

21. About six, an individual is sheeplike (5)

22. A flatfish to pat at with a handkerchief (3)

23. Summon one to appear in court to adduce it as proof (4)

24. A word possibly to clue as ‘kiss’ (8)

DOWN

1. It hardly washes, if one cancels it (6)

2. May confine one to motorway in being drunk (5)

3. Annoyed, being left in dire trouble (5)

5. Relationship with his pink form (7)

6. The heart thus beats for hunks (6)

7. Panel, sober in turn-out, and of good appearance (10)

9. To us, a Latin form of words in greeting (10)

14. Out of bed, one may begin to be a parvenu (7)

15. Exchange a sea for it (6)

16. A half-blue in sport is a bit of a risk (6)

18. In the Riviera I’d suffered incursions by the police (5)

19. A girl who changed daily (5) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Flintlock 5. Hod 7. Iota 8. Lion cubs 10. Portrait

11. Stay 13. Remove 15. Gun-dog 18. Corm 19. Vertical

22. Reliable 23. Mere 24. Lot 25. Kinswoman

1. Flipper 2. Inter 3. Origin 4. Kink 5. Haunted 6. Dusty

9. Grave 12. Rusty 14. Martlet 16. Galleon 17. Merlin

18. Coral 20. Cream 21. Walk

Down: