Weekend crossword

ACROSS

1 One who exploits a referee is not

agreeable (7)

5 Don’t do this with cold — get into hot

water (5, 2)

9 Sort of journalist to provide a

penetrating article for nothing (9) 10 Move clumsily — could be lighter (5) 11 Spoke about artificial silk (5)

12 Rebel gets run in, being disorderly (9) 13 Swing like a good golfer and succeed

all the way (6, 7)

17 Cutting through by bus, darling? I’ll go

on foot (67)

19 Business expenses concerning loaves

(9)

21 Peruvians of a certain caste (5) 23 Softly pink and tedious (5)

24 A neat mini arranged as a stilllife

subject (9)

25 Woman embracing child in stonework

(7)

26 Tippler having fling with mug (7)

DOWN

1 The rabble have the King and I on very

loud gunners ditto (44) 2 Fervent ‘‘out upon the railway‘‘! (5) 3 Grandeur of a minor branch about to

loan nothing (9)

4 Arrests Dad, Mum and the kids? Must

be hereditary! (4, 2, 3, 6)

5 Caress in a street? Freely — I’m in

need of little pressing (69)

6 Loop for hanging up gold drum (5) 7 Larrup ill wisher interrupting dance

(54) 8 Agreement to stand the drinks on the

fourth of July (6)

14 The dear Parisian, love us, is

debauched (9)

15 giltedged stocks, highclass neckwear,

including one illuminated (9)

16 View? Survey mine (8)

18 Two little dogs in a woolly ball (6) 20 Composer handy with variations (5) 22 Do as Cleopatra did the top part of her

snake (5)