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Answers to Mail on Tuesday have been published, don't understand these three:
15a Do they delay turning round Cape Horn initially?
A: yachts.
Where's the definition?
18d What's historically been squeezing a lady's top?
A: baleen.
No idea about this.
25d Devious, like some old books.
A: foxy.
Why like some old books?
Thank you.

18 A baleen is a corset, something that squeezes. It's an anagram of 'been' , 'a', in clue and 'l(ady) (lady's top).

15 Appears to an '& lit' - wordplay and clue lead to the answer

25 Old paper/books get 'foxed' with aged.

25 Chambers gives one meaning of 'foxed' as 'of books, discoloured' - maybe other dictionaries have the same under 'foxy'?

15 I think it's Stay = delay, turning = Yats, and CH is Cape Horn initially/initial letters. Round = Yats has CH inside.

Not happy. I've got a foxy book = I've got an old book? Don't think so.

I can see the construction of 15, but yachts = do they delay turning round Cape Horn? Doesn't work for me I'm afraid.

Thanks for the explanations.

Maybe : do they... round Cape Horn.?..yachts certain do.