THE BS CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Where to find the small fry in the high street? (4-3-4,4) 9 Led a nun astray, but not charged ! (7) 10 Turn your stomach, this can, for a change (7) 11 Consolidated, and that's just not sensible (5) 12 Communist and German worker no longer needed (9) 13 With testy self-deprecation she puts her victims to sleep (6,3) 15 Put away fourth rank and gave sustenance to 49 inside (5) 16 In work greeting religious leader where Solomon's riches originated (5) 18 Buying back mine, anyway, through what could be greed (9) 20 Do old bloc characters arrange to exhibit such hardheartedness? (4,5) 23 A performance of "Tosca" at the race course! (5) 24 Scrutinise departure in a nautical gadget (3-4) 25 Lack of one accounts for that dripping on the floor! (4,3) 26 To put a memorial on the wrong site would be (10,5)

DOWN

1 Giving a girl's face that wellbuilt look? (10,5) 2 I see! Seen left out, mum? (7) 3 Director making a note on storage furniture (9) 4 Aleksandr Borodin arranged to carry some Algerian bread (5) 5 From the pig, not a wet advertisement for the classical treedweller (9) 6 Pax Plate? (5) 7 Boot protector brought back from civilian Bohemia (7) 8 Peace and quiet beforehand... I enjoy it (a high point for a trickster?) (15) 14 Not forget ? But it's different now, and I have ! (9) 15 Men falter through which Australian port? (9) 17 An artist's house many live in (7) 19 He wasn't here to start with (7) 21 Blooms on moor B ... looking back you can see just how (5) 22 Bush name you rendered informally (5)