CROSSWORD
No 1,566
ACROSS
6 Expels a tenant from a property (6)
8 Large, arboreal, non-venomous, semiaquatic snake (8)
10 Venue; BBC arts programme (5)
11 Person who works to gain experience (6)
12 Germany’s largest urban agglomeration (4)
13 State of laziness, tiredness or lack of interest (9)
15 The island on which Napoleon Bonaparte was born (7)
17 On a golf course, the long strip of short grass between each tee and green (7)
19 Acknowledging (9)
22 Mischievous sprites (4) 23 Garden tool (6) 24 Male chicken fattened for eating (5)
25 Position of fame, superiority or distinction (8)
26 Used in nonstick saucepans (6)
DOWN
1 The process of gradual change over many generations (9)
2 Owned items convertible into cash (6)
3 German state with Munich as its capital (7)
4 Roman Emperor from 37-41AD (8)
5 Love, worship, think the world of (5)
7 19th-century British naturalist (7,6)
9 (and 18 down) 1859 book by 7 down in which he provided evidence for his theory of 1 down (2,3,6,2,7)
14 Islands visited by 7 down in the course of his research (9)
16 Laughing in a loud, unpleasant way (8) 18 See 9 down 20 Attribute, ascribe, assign (6)
21 Jacob or his brother Wilhelm – philologists both (5)