Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

1 Interweaved when puzzling 7 An item of headwear from a barber, etc 8 Turn the canoe into a vast expanse of salt water 11 Make sure of the examination 12 To withdraw one’s labour, is

a slap in the face perhaps 14 Worry over a potpourri 16 Imitates orang-utans and

the like 19 One confined to a hospital

is batting with a friend 22 A pleasing characteristic

delivered before a meal 24 Allude to a little more ferocity 25 A more parched laundry

appliance 26 Hundredths of proportions

in general

DOWN

1 Stranded wire conductors for overseas telegrams 2 Early in the morning, got up sullenly ill-humoured 3 Feel a terrible shortage afterwards 4 Informally hit a chronometer 5 A forest dweller is in the street 6 Some bad unknown characters may put a biscuit in their tea 9 Hoodwink an imposter 10 Poachers in pain 13 On a couple of occasions

throw out solid water 15 Lose patience with a rubber

ring one might say 17 Soundly looking at what

was a Chinese capital 18 Dispenses with additional tyres 20 Never alter fortitude 21 Go over the books,

displaying fraud itself 22 Keep a firm hold on comprehension 23 Initially the air force was a long way off