CRYP TIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Token clue (4)

3 Mad character in following chapter originally goes rabbiting (10)

9 Upper-class idlers, retiring,

occasionally exercised (4) 10 Compile ‘ten’ roughly like this

clu (10)

11 Small building suffers, having

no entry places for pets (7) 13 ‘Waiter and cook’ advert’s about

right (7)

14 We usually leave them pounds

heavier and pounds lighter (11) 18 Euphoric bore (11)

21 Polished section of gate-leg

antique (7)

22 Country tune backing American

gets into at first (7)

23 Ignore bush that’s aggravated

local residents (10)

24 Metal hip with variable carbon

coating (4)

25 Remarkable Parisian on piano,

soaring (10)

26 Getting on in prison having got

caught out (4)

DOWN

1 Bitter about the north? You may

be this! (8)

2 Golf setter played when putting in America, most impressive (8)

4 Tracks made by pile-up with top

fully down (5)

5 Many desert, led by you in the

past (9)

6 Power lies in sexiness or refined

looks (11)

7 International tempo raised to

support cold part of planet (6) 8 Gobbling venison up, guy that’s

heartless and ...? (6) 12 Principal problem is to crush rise of alien resistance (4,7)

15 Answer included in new collection of corniest answers (9)

16 Chant, ingesting acid and

turning on (8)

17 Forward on loan? (8)

19 Wrong goal overturned – that’s sport (6)

20 Oldster entering northbound

metro in Essen (6)

22 Article’s enclosed for protective

cover (5)