THE BS CROSSWORD
# 2837
ACROSS
1 The White House makes an exotic location for Bogart movie (10)
6 Troublesome fate of trade group (4)
9 Flaps when a man’s cover comes to an end (5-5)
10 Cease hearing these feet (4)
12 Mufti not suitable for hilld wellers? (5-7)
15 Brazilian city, in our opinion, is debauched (7)
16 Knife found in positively religious school (7)
17 At freezing point, the bird appears (7)
19 Helmet that’s not easy to wear? (4,3)
20 One paragon married to another? (7,5)
23 Too bad that a this is a shortage (4)
24 Pities puns misused with highly pretentious eminence (10)
25 Crooned in courtesan gardens, somehow (4)
26 Haricot beans, for example, not for starters (3-7)
DOWN
1 It may hold wine - sack, perhaps (4)
2 Port is left in it, in more senses than one (4)
3 It gives one some leverage in getting at the drink (6,6)
4 An Asian in trouble didn`t tell the truth (7)
5 Shy about defeat whilst suffering inner pain (7)
7 Escape without beating, but get a shiner (10)
8 As young lass is sittin’ on whale, ‘tis heartless to them as helps? (10)
11 Squashing critics? No, not rude enough (12)
13 Fruit for nippers? (4,6)
14 Central American person sharing the limelight on 1 May (5,5)
18 Below par and prone to withdraw (3,2,2)
19 More likely to prove a burden (7)
21 Garden area elates leading venerable British monk (4)
22 One little sibling, according to the status quo (2,2)