YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Pipe one’s eye 8. Operates 9. Vain 10. Geese 13. Shoe 16. Opal 17. Slap 18. Dyed 20. Agree 24. Ease 25. Finalist 26. Competitors

Down: 2. Idea 3. Evade 4. Needs 5. Eaves 6. Foot soldiers 7. Interpolate 11. Extra 12. Elver 14. Hold 15. Make 19. Dream 21. Grist 22. Exact 23. Pier