National Post (National Edition)
CRYPTIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Gambles crossing street of city in riots (12)
8 Run mobile phone holding company (7)
9 Taking black bucket to feed horse (7)
11 Empire collapsed with Republican leader (7) 12 Reception room contains worn-out bag (7) 13 Jewellery gives off metallic sound (5)
14 Be excessively formal on deck (9) 16 Vegetable processed to get cure (9)
19 Drink two times wiped from bed cover (5)
21 Home female once worshipped somewhere in America (7) 23 Strolled from Post Office, post already despatched here and there (7)
24 The Queen in Great Britain is keeping primarily little animals (7) 25 Studio set back in thoroughfare I let, affordable (7) 26 Maybe, Real and Inter with many out injured (8,4)
DOWN
1 Grey, say, up above, cooler underground (7)
2 Banks incorporating current accounts (7)
3 First out of bed tormented me with strop (9)
4 Reserve seat? (5) 5 Chewed part of pen leaked (7) 6 Groom’s plea getting in tangle with tie (7) 7 Crew’s excited, gathering in monarch’s smashing boat (12) 10 Dad lost grand spoiling model (4,8) 15 Admirable French article, lines supporting former European politician (9)
17 Suffer, short of energy (7) 18 Older relative with thing mostly for hard rock (7)
19 Near console on the blink (5,2) 20 Secretive group is on top of termination in contract for player (7)
22 Lost away from land (2,3)