Cryptis crossword - The Scotsman 22/09/12

ACROSS

1 Wager about drooping bedcover (7)

5 Intimidate Basil perhaps finding plant (7)

9 and 16 How roulette-wheel will improve (4,1,4,3,3,6)

10 Sound connections for wildcat (4)

11 Roll Blanche and Sue cooked (7,3)

13 Garment on jazz fan with hole in (8)

14 Warning inside to give way (4,2)

16 See 9

18 Like finest, outstanding, incombustible material (8)

21 Absurd trial on air that’s illogical (10)

22 Wine very popular and ordinary (4)

24 Categorised info about time when one is mature enough to take responsibility for one’s own actions (3,2,10)

25 Spotted plain cake (7)

26 One breaks down at work (7)

DOWN

1 Battalion rift be averted during period of prolonged bombing (6,2,7)

2 Indirectly as a neck is turned (7)

3 King, knight and a pawn on crest of hill (4)

4 Do chat up cook using computer input device (8)

5 Wicked light (6)

6 Here allows new seller (10)

7 Fit to be consumed taken from centre of tea-tables (7)

8 Slightly crazy idea, it could get the head buzzing (3,2,4,6)

12 Systematically accurate? (10)

15 Not right to ascertain movement from cattle-estate (8)

17 Fellows inside trot up in agony (7)

19 Three in one college (7)

20 Managed to include one that had been duplicated (6)

23 Jack an Oriental, brought up glass from German city (4)

Yesterday’s solution:

Across: 8 Latinist, 9 Hooray, 10 Novena, 11 Landmass, 12 Orca, 13 The riot act, 15 Octagon, 17 Aligned, 20 Maltese cat, 22 Mama, 24 Splinter, 26 Relate, 27 Brillo, 28 Intaglio.

Down: 1 Vapour, 2 Cinerama, 3 Disastrous, 4 Stalked, 5 Shin, 6 Format, 7 Massacre, 14 Illiterate, 16 Champers, 18 Gemology, 19 Acerbic, 21 Triple, 23 Metric, 25 Troy.