The Cryptic
ACROSS
1. Meteorological data predicts a wet hamper (7,3)
7. Horner lifter? (4)
9. About the hotel worker: he’s actually a journalist (8)
10. Pierce, I’m sallow! (6)
11. Washer, or maybe a tanner (6) 13. Power tool was back after the length of the pitch (8)
14. Wens – awful tidings (8,4) 17. Order C – they say it just keeps repeating itself (6,6)
20. A flower, a cheer, also the monarch (8)
21. Interment of old city, one in Billy Hughes’s first party (reversed) (6)
22. Old money for new nation? (6) 23. Bunch of bananas miss the
servant (8)
25. Heavy metal to go first (4)
26. Teases invalid consumed in
breasts! (10)
DOWN
2. Eve’s late – needs lifts… (8) 3. …and time for spectacles (3) 4. Come in, join and insert (5) 5. Sign: Motorists Organisation in a long way (7)
6. William Dampier, for one: an enlisted man and a queen (9) 7. Pa races Jean around the Corolla (8,3)
8. About a hundred, everything inside: turn up in the basement! (6)
12. Bad rain here – stormy, reckless (11)
15. Air fat actors (9)
16. Iterates ingredients of a methodical exposition (8) 18. Range of hearing, but lugs burning! (7)
19. Part of a sentence for Santa, English (6)
21. Bar Capone – hackneyed! (5) 24. Second a big bird (3)