CROSSWORD
Clues across
1. Bear offspring left in grotto (5) 4. Floating on some logs a long way back, can start to grin (7) 8. Lavish relation entertains bishop and worker (8) 9. Overwhelming desire by the French to goad (6) 10. Ginge does work on brokendown tractor (6-3) 11. The crew, they say, swarm (4) 12. Meant to end nonsense at Emergency Department (7) 14. The colour I like in new and old settings (6) 16. Braved difficulty superbly for example (6) 17. Varicoloured model requires reassembly. Technical training is included (7) 18. Champions are the ones in suits (4) 20. Finish or sign off from giving support (9) 23. US spies use computer-aided design internally to make a bug (6) 24. Fare dodger beginning to see the most active sort of enforcement of parking restrictions (8) 25. Day-care centre botched neurosurgery, rogue dismissed (7) 26. Bridge player, one comfortably off, in plane (5)
Clues down
1. Little scout in charge of three dimensions (5) 2. Crave cooking apparatus far into the future (4-5) 3. The muse of love is a bit of an operator (5) 4. Damage to trade having experienced a revolution (7) 5. Obscure details in a high quality etching (4,5) I rent mobile though unable to move (5) 7. A solid sort of investment but tinged with shame it’s said (4-5) 12. Discount logical thinking (9) 13. Silver water able to flow (9) 15. A boy turns up with a mailout for spiritual leader (5,4) 17. Style pig pen as reserve (7) 19. Step one: being embraced by celebrity (5) 21. I sort out wild revelries (5) 22. Scowl brightly? (5)