Weekend crossword

ACROSS

1 Act in rotation to snatch short walks

(4, 5)

6 NonU Olympic event produces records

(5)

9 Go with a patient man for a spot of

mending (6, 3)

10 Step in the street with a song (5) 11 First of famous defeats shown in

pictures (6)

12 Suffering from ailment, is taking rest

with doctor about (8)

14 One holy man interrupting during the

waltz? That’s far out! (2, 3, 8)

16 Demos by unemployed, waving guns

here around border (6, 7)

20 Angry about outfit that’s wet (8) 21 Wooden vessel seen in pub and about

lake (6)

23 Become aware of a word’s meaning (5) 24 The engineers, on horseback, get

ahead at once (9)

25 Control uncultivated region around the

East (5)

26 I rouse drunk with cunning, and with

gravity (9)

DOWN

1 Economical management needed for

the plant (6)

2 Confined, playing cineorgan, told

nothing (4, 2, 9)

3 Ornamental trifle made by agile knitter

(7)

4 Eastern ruler capsized a vessel (4) 5 Supplementary subscription is written

up on daily record (10)

6 Going down to express disagreement,

we hear (7) 7 What a thrashed person sees and

feels? It makes one flag (5, 3, 7)

8 Tearer or stripper? That’s about right

(8)

13 After bad dream, bird is getting

skintrouble (10

15 Toothy cutter was achin’ badly (53) 17 Encourage the boss, an intellectual (7) 18 Man, a beastly doctor, gets a ring to

stop the ship (5, 2)

19 Gracefully slender, love turns up in blue

(6)

22 Noisy listener causes alarm (4)