CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Bring it on prematurely, headlong (11)

8. It’s overlarge, the ring bees form (5)

9. Praise it, and bring it to one’s notice (7)

10. At such an insurance payment it’s in great demand (7)

11. Suckle the last three children with us (5)

12. Manage to find when I’ve left the sleuth (6)

14. Chum allowed to give one a mattress (6)

18. A row with the North which is material (5)

19. One taking possession of place must get the revenue right (7)

21. Spoil the icon he made as a telegraph pioneer (7)

23. State one had backed nothing (5)

24. It’s used for filling in the hole in the hose (7,4)

DOWN

1. Pep, drop of which could have bolstered one up (7)

2. The height at which woman can relax (7)

3. Boadicea’s people could be nice about one (5)

4. Most of 19 could be earned or unearned (6)

5. Its pungency causes moan I am about to make (7)

6. Such an opener is startling in its enlightenment (3)

7. Brock didn’t quite complete the club symbol (5)

13. Card UNO is playing with frankness (7)

15. A gumboil I disregarded brought pain back (7) 16. Great upset caused by moult: right, one needs to adjust (7)

17. Francesca’s place is on edge in one respect (6)

18. Light emitted, with half luck, by fellows (5)

20. Hold hard to clothing, being hot and bothered out of it (5)

22. I’d followed redhead to get shot of one (3)

SATURDAY’S SOLUTION: Across

1. Crown imperial

9. Serenader

10. Adsum

11. Units

12. Orthodoxy

13. Inhalers

15. Basset

18. Rhombs

20. Paradise

23. Intermits

24. Fasts

25. Bleat

26. Camel hair

27. Perpendicular

Down

1. Costumier

2. Ogreish

3. Nines

4. Mediocre

5. Errata

6. Inamorata

7. Lessons

8. Dummy

14. Liberator

16. Treasurer

17. Ransomed

19. Outleap

21. Install

22. Circle

23. Imbed

24. Folic