CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. After boiling it may have a duff turnout (7,5)

8. Point to the way it acted in one version (8) 9. Manage to put up with ursa (4)

11. Little Henry may harass one (5)

12. Take a close look at chopper returning to pit (7)

13. Cry of pain when the Open University goes to church (4) 15. It’s the defendant’s answer to a lawsuit in Scotland (4) 19. Pottery town that showed true air of change (7)

20. The seven ball is put up by one making a gaffe (5) 22. Shortly the pari mutuel will carry it (4)

23. Might this monarch be the prettiest girl around? (3,5) 24. A Northerner makes his mark on rye perhaps (12)

DOWN

2. It is beneath one, being subordinate (5)

3. Yes: a CD that gets broken simply wastes away (6)

4. Talk on about the rhyme Hatter made of it (6)

5. A particular form of clasp that is manufactured (7)

6. Car never supplied to a monarch if it’s causing distress (5-7) 7. Standing with the door on one’s left makes the going in legal (5,2,5)

10. It may take a witch to introduce hydrogen to silver (3) 14. Our cart is turned out by the museum official (7)

16. If no alcohol is available, use the towel (3)

17. This sort of sausage from Lima, as a change (6) 18. Everywhere that’s Latin, if in a shrub, I question (6) 21. Betel-nut may be served in square cartons (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION:

Across 1. Pewter 8. Rinse 9. Garbage

11. Splinter 12. Jelly 15. Loot 16. Icy 17. Once 19. Still 21. Partisan

24. Lumbago 25. Basic 26. Exerts

Down 2. Evade 3. Tabulate 4. Rags 5. Braid 6. Knot 7. Tear 10. Episcopal

12. Jolt 13. Portable 14. Peel 18. Winch 20. Light 21. Pubs 22. Rash

23. Nude