CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Too much in the scale to have toppled? (12)

8. Raised in status from bone, lend it some change (8)

9. Get the pitch right for such an air (4)

11. Avoid leading Venetian by going round the Duomo first (5)

12. I’m a favourite American providing one with push (7)

13. It is the devil of a police station (4)

15. Perfect place put in agreed ending (4)

19. A row no longer fashionable on the rugby field (7)

20. Get one mired down by mob, for example, in the confusion (5)

22. The way one walks soundly met with on the way in (4)

23. We old, sad as can be, go at a snail’s pace (4,4)

24. Weapon makes slit in the ground with something like cement (6,6) DOWN

2. Having fins, five get the Dean upset (5)

3. A man who has taking ways (6)

4. Give one axle a turn through inability to read (6)

5. It was important, so listed how many there were (7)

6. Robe that may be worn getting up and retiring (8-4)

7. The best sort of ale is the one outstanding in a group

(7,5)

10. Copy a primate (3)

14. It is brief, once (sic) it is arranged (7)

16. A parent of modern music for the masses (3)

17. Flow out of the street with twenty quires (6)

18. Freed, around 1st November, in order to provide a protection (6)

21. Corkwood is used among tribal savages (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Crutch 8. Heels 9. Tynwald 11. Mermaids

12. Angry 15. Odin 16. Ego 17. Army 19. Blood 21. Disposed

24. Deafens 25. Drive 26. Reside

Down: 2. Rayon 3. Towering 4. Helm 5. Shame 6. Peri 7. Isis

10. Delegated 12. Anon 13. Bailiffs 14. Eyed 18. Money

20. Owned 21. Dido 22. Said 23. Dear