Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

1 A district member to Paris,

a heroine! Not quite 7 More charming truce ingredients 8 Mends, and attaches firmly 11 When trying for a means of

access 12 The essential character of

flora and fauna 14 Highlight some of the best

arrangements 16 In want of being badly off 19 Prevents development of

daring feats 22 Sounds like hard work for one of the chief political parties of Australia 24 A particular acid found

before noon, in oxygen 25 An object valued as a souv

enir is a thing of the past 26 Diana has come into view

and dropped out of sight

DOWN

1 Scrape up harness racers 2 Part of the eyeball of a

ferret in Australia 3 The bookie joins a rodent for

what is traded for a mackerel 4 From evidence, judge some

of the main ferries 5 Succeeding thereafter 6 Everything in the garden is

blooming 9 Unfit to be incompetent 10 Consequently undergoes within 13 Incendiarism in the parsonage 15 Line up the squad 17 The stable hand somehow

lost the last supper 18 And Ric became sour 20 A great number in a unit of

scouts 21 Look after a hospital worker 22 Alight on terra firma 23 At last Bambi does without

tenders