ACROSS
7 For 24 hours (5-3-5)
9 A coloured handkerchief (7)
10 Put forward (5)
11 Eat away with acid (4)
12 Surrounded by (5)
16 Break up (5)
17 Japanese wrestling (4)
21 Respond to a stimulus (5)
22 Makes possible (7)
23 Talks (13)
DOWN
1 Vexed question (7)
2 The hedge-sparrow (7)
3 Perfect (5)
4 Statement of money owing (7)
5 Swells (coll) (5)
6 Garment (5)
8 Rectors (11)
13 Stifle (7)
14 Precious metal in bulk (7)
15 Be composed of (7)
18 Strengthen (5)
19 Discourage (5)
20 Moulds (5)
Friday’s solution
Across: 1 Dough, 4 Gough, 10 Motet, 11 Oughtn’t, 12 Hiccough, 13 Ovum, 15 Trough, 17 Picnic, 19 Magi, 20 Boadicea, 23 Nothing, 24 Lough, 25 Rough, 26 Tough.
Down: 2 Optic, 3 Get tough, 5 Orgy, 6 Get even, 7 Amphetamine, 8 Bough, 9 Stomachache, 14 Vindaloo, 16 Ought to, 18 Hough, 21 Clung, 22 Sing.