CROSSWORD

Combo Cross No. 4865

Straight Clues ACROSS

1 Division

7 Under legal age 8 Endures

11 Sets of six bowls

12 Doglike

14 Hurried

16 Long-tailed rodents

19 Calm a situation

22 Hinder

24 Apart

25 Type of fruit

26 Without a place of refuge

DOWN

1 Dromedaries

2 Threaten

3 Pinafore

4 Bird’s claw

5 Comfort

6 Throw

9 Affirms with confidence

10 A jogging gait

13 Increased

15 Baked dishes

17 Charge with carbon dioxide

18 Practises theft

20 Elevate

21 Racecourse tipster (coll)

22 Touches lightly

23 Make weary

ACROSS Cryptic Clues

1 Comment about portion of a separate room

7 Lesser than a youngster

8 Goes on bootmakers’ models

11 Roves around sets of six

12 Can inefficiently produce a dog

14 Rushed to grasp editions

16 Starlike vermin

19 Feed us to calm an action

22 Discourage crude terminations

24 Apart from a team

25 Nicaragua vagabonds conceal a tropical fruit

26 Protect fewer when not placed under cover

DOWN

1 Beasts of burden are deserters, perhaps

2 Endanger some blokes’ aces

3 Snap Ronnie out of part of the boxing ring

4 Claw back at London outskirts

5 EEEE ?

6 Hurl to Social Security, initially

9 Raves, and declares in a positive manner

10 Scamper at a brisk pace

13 Supplemented with top dressing dead pieces

15 Pastry dishes from octopi, essentially

17 Charge with gas from the tea era

18 Robs slates

20 Build upright

21 One who prompts a racecourse tout

22 Gently pats small quantities

23 Become fatigued in retirement