THE BS CROSSWORD

# 3157

ACROSS

1 Noble prime minister in royal office (4,11) 9 Doctor admitted being overwhelmed (7) 10 Indulge girl, a good loser (7) 11 Former Soviet citizen from Zaire (5) 12 French actor molested over his god? (9) 13 Medal isn't distributed for strike (9) 15 Festival with aspiration to become a fool (5) 16 Rings in the wrong shop about nothing (5) 18 Music direction on, in and atdances (9) 20 As score came up, it went the wrong way (9) 23 I fool with some of the surviving Shakespeare manuscripts (5) 24 A weapon as piercing as episode one ! (7) 25 Getting quite a lot of eggs to the dollar,the beast! (7) 26 Tactless way to test the bathwater (3,4,4,2,2)

DOWN

1 Dog-meet-dog world? (4,3,3,5) 2 "Old car stalls", discloses again (7) 3 Alters Hannibal's top for maneaters (9) 4 Fish in a pond, ultimately given assistance (5) 5 It might cover up where you could be lying (9) 6 One going up the stairs, or coming down in the morning ? (5) 7 Avoiding contact in an informal gathering (7) 8 Quite an absence of scenery, and what there is seems fairly unattractive! (3,4,2,4,2) 14 Essays about old dramatic works (9) 15 Make respectful acknowledgement of components of elf gun, etc (9) 17 Poetry in the Old Testament is all that a newspaper’s printery hasn’t space for (7) 19 It's an unkind act (3-4) 21 Leave food container outside, making cat cross (5) 22 Marx used to talk endlessly - endlessly (5)