NOT SO EASY

ACROSS DOWN ACROSS

01. I tape sport, I edit – if it appeases (11)

08. Poem about one in liquor, the store being large (8)

09. Mean to get close (4)

10. That which blooms in haste, repents (5)

13. Fine leather bit of leg (4)

16. Seem dreamy, for a satellite (4)

17. Some support for a wall may be put out to sea (4)

18. Gets clear where cricket practice is going on (4)

20. Gather a di erent angle (5)

24. Claim it's a part of their nature, vandals returning (4)

25. Ain't misbehaving: absolutely to adore is the answer! (8)

26. Dwellings round the common, where things are grown? (11)

2418 DOWN

02. Line work in the Sappers (4)

03. Capital needed for change of air in afterthought (5)

04. When fighting stops, cheer-leader's found in loyal setting (5)

05. Something that's worn is shaped in cut (5)

06. To listen meant adapting, if so full of feeling (11)

07. The things one would rather! (11)

11. Sound taste around the West (5)

12. To heighten bravura, is easily contained (5)

14. What soprano may sing, given up in fair assessment (4)

15. One application of paint for Ulster, perhaps (4)

19. Red Boy Blue? (5)

21. A meal it takes an eon to finish (5)

22. Last thing to say, sounding like a thing one's owing (5)

23. Assumed attitude to perplex one with questions (4)

1. Decimate 4. Calm 8. Nab 9. Obese 10. Tar 11. Treated 12. Exist 13. Chain-smoker 17. Comma 18. Tripped 20. Rue 21. Lying 22. Pip 23. Dash 24. Reptiles

1. Denote 2. Cable 3. Tweed 5. Astride 6. Merits 7. Developing 9. Obtainable 14. Hammers 15. Scored 16. Adepts 18. Tripe 19. Papal