CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1. Make-up company chemists have no aspiration to make (9)

5. Appreciate one may find an archaeologist here (3)

7. Look vacant, like a Scotsman who has swallowed nothing (4)

8. Went ahead and made one a loan on salary (8)

10. Carmen so upset by the stories Jose told her? (8)

11. What a shame that devoutness is so heartless (4)

13. Man needed in tailoring craft (6) 15. Unexpectedly appear as end of trouser legs may do (4,2)

18. Food for the dog may be repeated (4) 19. State English county is fortunate not to have begun (8)

22. Cloudy blue: on us it looks different (8) 23. Having sufficient skill, can remove top of wire (4)

24. Stain will, one is told, simply fade away (3)

25. Country reentered by England this way (9)

Down

1. Fine material came, and brick finishes off (7)

2. Violent outbreak most upsetting if runs are included (5)

3. Certainly it is where Sir is desired (6) 4. About fifty, for argument's sake, to put to death (4)

5. Way of saying it in code, almost (7) 6. Did wrong to put in non-u guy when light-headed (5)

9. Make cross in strange rubric (5) 12. What glazier needs placed at both ends of trajectory (5)

14. After end of Soviet, Russian currency caused some bother (7)

16. Take note of wages: get heated, at being lost (3,4)

17. Say one won't have rubbish in the house (6)

18. Coming out of the dance, felt whacked (5) 20. Cab, or version of it with hood that's dangerous (5)

21. A mention on the air may produce sparks (4)

Friday's solution

Across 1. Sickle 4. Wander 9. Airport 10. Lined 11. Chin 12. Mean 13. Elk 15. Hobo 16. Lisp 19. Rag 21. Ugly 22. Gown 24. Avoid 25. Parking 26. Trends 27. Resent Down 1. Search warrant 2. Cornish 3. Look 5. Atlantic 6. Dunce 7. Red sky at night 8. Steer 14. Abounded 17. Promise 18. Slips 20. Globe 23. True