THE BS CROSSWORD #3308

ACROSS:

1 Fessed up as Cronje did?

(4,3,4,4)

9 Flanders states ... “Cook first

shellfish” (7)

10 Author turning on the earth

first movement? (7)

11 Clean up mallee country (5) 12 Put down and gave testimony

about it (9)

13 Those vulgar idiots, the hoi

polloi! (3,6)

15 Run out and sign the pledge

(2,3)

16 Prize-giver reportedly without

warning device (5)

18 Animals find army leader in European stream on Rhode Island (9) 20 Abbot mostly prompt with a

learner regarding wet season (9) 23 A 10 and 1 almost all situated on

the central line (5)

24 Greatly increased in numbers in

the new red belt (7)

25 Remove German man from old

public dancing party (7) 26 Double-ended home with Barnaby being the one to do all the work (9,6)

DOWN:

1 Winning combination in court

(4,3,3,5)

2 She went from Virginia to Lake

Erie (7)

3 Sort of sketch in thin album,

perhaps (9) 4 Hero’s gamble upset after 50

invaded (2,3)

5 Presumably for the future one

follows this course (9)

6 No sex maniac released by

Yeoman officers (5)

7 My gut’s distorted after sampling the Communist stew (7)

8 Solver’s future good fortune’s affirmed in a manner which could make a mouldy co-re wily (4,3,4,4)

14 Drug is not secretly smuggled for this musical twosome of bowmen (6,3)

15 Oranges do transform duck! (9) 17 It keeps hair in place and is

taken in by an admirer (7) 19 Was sex linked with diet? (7) 21 Stan’s mate made the dog lose

its head (5)

22 Enticed the Commie with some

lunch, first (5)