Yesterday’s solution

ACROSS:

1 Opposes. 5 Safe. 7 Ebb.

8 Penzance. 9 Curse. 10 Look. 13 Nail. 14 Sews. 18 Lime. 19 Aries. 21 Face-lift. 22 Awe. 23 Slay. 24 Forceps.

DOWN:

1 Overcast. 2 Pub crawl. 3 Septet. 4 Single. 5 Sharon. 6 Fact. 11 Kamikaze. 12 Blisters. 15 Sinewy. 16 Belief. 17 Batter. 20 Hall.

DOWN

1 Plants one gag during London

theatre skills (5,10)

2 Circle cryptic clues about

large eye-spot (7)

3 Old PM nursed by foreign

orthodontist (5)

4 Like stars, they work primarily

on slightest hint (9)

5 Say quickly: Dance cancelled

(4,3)

6 Train teams scheduled to take

on one tree problem (5,3,7)

7 Tremors in southern route

over mountain (6)

8 Explorer destroys unfinished

drawing (6)

16 Tissue problem? Start of surgery is closer possibly (9)

18 French guy goes outside, say,

to go back on (6)

19 Shock involves touching

clothes (7)

21 They are beaten in a mine blocked by Mike on way up (7)

23 A director general comes in

to fetch device (6)

25 Dim British king who went

mad (5)