Yesterday’s solution
ACROSS:
1 Harness. 5 Nape. 7 Pop. 8 Snatched. 9 Large. 10 Deem. 13 Like. 14 Seep. 18 Earn. 19 Utter. 21 Suitcase. 22 Kit. 23 Hear. 24 Extends.
1 Hopeless. 2 Repartee. 3 Ensues. 4 Shandy. 5 Nickel. 6 Poet. 11 Mistaken. 12 Detritus. 15 Patter. 16 Invade. 17 Rupert. 20 June.
DOWN:
Batsmen end idly, running in
distracted fashion (14)
9 Return, avoiding first exit (6)
10 Maybe Gibraltar and Spain
test use of missiles (8)
11 Lawyer Yate ordered to collect rent (8)
13 Saddle bay under ground (6)
15 They’ve got thick skins playing horns, one assumed (6)
17 Annie perhaps, or ghost
abducting cat (6)
19 Seafood fraud on page one
(6)
20 Rabbi led cast but he didn’t
rehearse his speech (2-6)
22 Irish spirit comes in through
eastern state (8)
24 Deny what secret agent carries back (6)
26 Officer moves to Sinai, making vague statement (14)
DOWN
1 Focus on GP’S business that
improves shots (6,8)
2 Fair, for one, is allowed to be
shortened (4)
3 College boy’s organisation of
public workers (6)
4 Fire lawyers around noon eating here? (5,3)
5 Kelly’s unit that’s passed on by
parent (4)
7 It’s my right to keep painting
constant moaner (6)
8 Resetting a line mistakenly
where colon appears (5,9)
12 Writer’s round the bend after
work? This calms him (5)
14 Man’s in pub, falling over?
This clearly hasn’t worked (5)
16 Eastern exam involves one
hospital department (8)
18 Trip in wild Africa’s about to
be scrapped (6)
21 Left with golden carriage (6)
23 Originally glacier largely
eroded northern valley (4)
25 Dour German border (4)