CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1.
Where they practise shooting fliers, anger being shown
(5,6)
8. Sorting nothing out when perching for the night (8)
9. A hundred hit out in their irritation (4)
10. Form of verse one can cut (5)
13. Biblical brother may have had a use for him (4)
16. It may bloom in one’s eye (4)
17. Could be intoxicated by an anticyclone (4)
18. Chatter quietly, and catch one’s breath (4)
20. Very swiftly goes and throws them at the board (5)
24. Do the opposite, to resolve the knot (4)
25. Game that might resound, after starting right (8)
26. Moving woodenly to the music? (11)
DOWN
2. One must study a computer image (4)
3. Some liquid is ignited by the Sappers (5)
4. Get up around middle of the morning and remove the soap (5)
5. May move smoothly, or be powerless to fly (5)
6. Is erupting – from prison? (8,3)
7. Didn’t concentrate so much when inconsiderate (11)
11. Was at cross purposes at ballot-time (5)
12. A clause that is added for the jockey (5)
14. One won’t keep a spade’s depth in one’s mouth (4)
15. Fail to meet a lady teaching (4)
19. Picture the finish being so close! (5)
21. A scent, or a turn-up with mother (5)
22. The gin mixer will give one the key-note (5)
23. This could be the head runner (4) YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION
Across: 1. Solitary 4. Skit 8. Rum 9. Solve 10. Nor 11. Bottled
12. Sahib 13. Guttersnipe 17. Asset 18. Rubella 20. Tea
21. Ovine 22. Dab 23. Cite 24. Osculate
Down: 1. Scrubs 2. Limit 3. Riled 5. Kinship 6. Throbs
7. Personable 9. Salutation 14. Upstart 15. Baltic 16. Gamble
18. Raids 19. Lydia