CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prize-winning writer’s novel got award at Rome (8,6) 9 Categorized album containing Seal’s “Crazy” (7)

10 Sea mammal figurine: Flipper in the sound (7) 11 Writer’s Chalice mirrored Crackpot (8,7) 12 Kingsley getting into Natalie’s lingerie (8) 14 A northern Brit’s neckwear (6)

17 Group of teams put together about three miles (6)

19 Paul sets off beats (8) 22 Writer adapted Elijah at Macedon (7,8)

24 Go back and forth about mathematician’s constant theft (7) 25 Mischief-maker wraps up looms (7) 26 Stage Biddy,

Field, and Rooster for writer (7,7)

DOWN

2 Rearrange a pick on hammer (7) 3 Stare, taking in small peninsula of Quebec (5) 4 Mass meeting about help brought back out from the hub (8)

5 Royal family’s heraldic gold covered with scattered dust (6)

6 Shows tangled lace in trials (9)

7 Play Old Testament greeting (7)

8 One who gives name in entranceway (5) 9 Amusing column about flaky mineral (7)

13 Easily disgusted type’s back in town north of Vancouver (9) 15 Resists reforming members of the family (7) 16 Rambling in trek up highway (8)

18 Vault I have in store (7) 20 Giant jerk nabbing one bronze (7)

21 Colours on wine container (6) 22 Boggy growth occupied by eastern prophet (5) 23 Something moulded like short film (5)