Last Week’s Cryptic
ACROSS
1. Joy saw abuses – terrible, but they say it was a very long time ago (5,3,1,3)
8. Progressive and tolerant – until it becomes an Australian party (7)
9. Russian river vista – disgusting (7)
11. Declare the newspaper pretty ordinary (7)
12. English boy goes round a rider – English, passed away (7) 13. Idiots rate without an end (5) 14. Inexperienced page – Legolas, perhaps! (9)
16. A bird for a big club with a
town in midland Tasmania (9) 19. Mute Marx returns to become a star of TV (5)
21. Hearts, in small measures, produce repeats (7)
23. A worker’s garment, generally
(7)
24. Suspense writer back in fat
predator (7)
25. Rebuke for the virtuous and
new (7)
26. Go lasso dad – go mad, but on
your best behaviour (2,4,2,4)
DOWN
1. Prophet diminished – unemployed (7)
2. Masters swirling creeks (7) 3. Lose gig of a result of a vocal exercise (9)
4. A big single, unaccompanied (5)
5. Don’t drink, sailor – disgrace! (7)
6. Supervise above the bishop’s patch (7)
7. Earl aces ball unexpectedly – but there can be absolutely no argument about it (5,2,1,4) 10. Last in the queue – it’s all over! (3,2,3,4)
15. Settles conclusion almost over candleholder (9)
17. Calls and bonks around the upturned church (7)
18. Storm ripped up a party (7)
19. Herb has two loves around
Lear’s daughter (7)
20. Cooked up a thoroughfare,
east, in another highway (7) 22. Supported the Left, perhaps,
with 500 (5)
Solution next week