Diversions & Puzzles

Puzzle No 1162

Clues across

5. A lady when in Rome and on transfer (5) 6. Old speedometer reading in plate prepared for a small publication (8) 9. A whimsical impulse about damage (7) 10. Regroup or unite for the usual round of activities (7) 11. Tell the customs officer that you have dutiable goods cleared in error (7) 12. Elementary schoolbooks showing the first dabs of paint on the wall (7) 13. Being bossy, stir singers up about six (11) 18. Human beings go crazy about new family (7) 20. A veteran, Donald, dementedly takes heroin (3,4) 22. Get an extension to the sentence (7) 24. Wax lyrical with tunes he composed (7) 25. It is fantastic: succeeded by doctor, nothing to you and me (8) 26. Stage new entrances (5)

Clues down

1. What the auditor does as bugs keep quiet (8) 2. Paint a different coat on the old copper (6) 3. Ruler writes sound correspondence in uprising (4) 4. Tell about location for building, say (6) 5. Interpret a style of design popular in the 30s from Parisian (6) 6. Favoured being quietly brought up (9) 7. I undo knot in greeting the escape artist (7) 8. Some lovers enjoy a bit of poetry (5) 12. Inmates iron (press) to appear reformed (9) 14. Directed to be sharp (7) 15. A bachelor from the university can be forced to eat a drug (8) 16. Divert a rodent lacking love (5) 17. Commercial, that is us, for good buys you might say (6) 19. Contract to make nuclear missile (6) 21. Function, thanks to genetic engineering, in second childhood (6) 23. It will hit the ground running with a head start and almost 12 inches coming up (4)