CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Plot to bear out that one can take it with one (8)

4. Some way off, an armed service can return to it (4)

8. Get shot of a doctor who holds one back (3)

9. A musician quietly engaged in seaside entertainment place (5)

10. Make fun of one shaft in a feather (3)

11. Sell, now that it’s been made larger than usual (7)

12. Fold sewn in a pelt when it’s made up (5)

13. They burn one in conspiracy who has slight disagreement (5,6)

17. Footways in the past could include the beginning of history (5)

18. Observer shows what credit may be arranged around the East (7)

20. Go quickly if there’s a general call on the bank (3)

21. Fetters one presses flat (5)

22. Put clothes on a gentleman in Spain (3)

23. Look for a way to understand work finally (4)

24. Sin of the grown-up starts early, renouncing youth (8)

DOWN

1. Area of church concern makes capital by end of a month (6)

2. Send signal if one is seen in the wrong road (5)

3. Bloom one will endlessly pull up when at home (5)

5. Men fret about causing such agitation (7)

6. Something one gets back might be rate of exchange (6)

7. Multiplies, using paper got as necessary for it (10)

9. Phosphor will spoil different item of bedlinen (6-4)

14. Deeply emotional way one may have got away from the Nineties (7)

15. Extra wheels are available in spins, in having left (6)

16. Spirit will mark one as a boy finally (6)

18. Courted one with energy when among the trees (5)

19. It won’t answer directly where privet is concerned (5)

YESTERDAY’S SOLUTION

Across: 1. Paralysis 5. Rod 7. Role 8. Cannibal 10, 5 Down. Daylight robbery 11. Defy 13. Slight 15. Crayon 18. Army 19. Proposed 22. Rareness 23. Pall 24. Wed 25. Overtakes

Down: 1. Parades 2. Rally 3. Swathe 4. Sing 5. see 10 Across 6. Dully 9. Sight 12. Grips 14. Immured 16. Nodules 17. Wrasse 18. Arrow 20. Slack 21. Undo