CROSSWORD

Puzzle No 1054

Clues across

5. A traitor with gold tooth initially turned into a “living fossil” (7) 6. Nasty smell about actor’s job, unfinished, now to be extended (7) 9. Regular university in America: large (5) 10. Beg urgent replacement for the old printer (9) 11. Where you might write propane formula (2,5) 13. Bar non-governmental organisation getting into it (5) 15. Barracuda on hulk floating around the Waitemata (8,7) 17. Henry and I took its leaders’ country (5) 18. Babyhood seen as a fantasy (7) 22. Animal up for a change, eating end of stalk in tree (5,4) 23. Consumed half each by 2200 hours (5) 25. Is old limerick writer to return: one like Solomon perhaps? (7) 26. Sin gets reviewed; that’s what Consumer does (7)

Clues down

1. A subtribe with a purpose to some extent (4) 2. Doctor takes everybody round for a quick ride (6) 3. Spread piece of cloth upside down in ocean (9) 4. Rub ice on liberally to become more resilient (8) 5. Take turn in a top resort by lake (5) 6. Place and time to stroke one’s balls (4) 7. Closed and wrong, wrong like an abandoned garden (9) 8. Joker in frightful rage about revenue collected from things he buys (7) 12. Select reported pilferer, one going to eat out (9) 14. Highly protective old covering for tea delivered by post (5,4) 15. A Ghanaian people use some cash antisocially (7) 16. Idle user at sea having no need to work (8) 19. Ran away, turning up for example to rear birds (6) 20. “Many a Long Day” on Sky in new series (5) 21. I kiss a tenor on the way up in the cab (4) 24. Technologist drops guts with an international field trial (4)