Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Early 17thcentury girl eating a nut
(8)
5 Rising, sink back, lethargic (6) 10 Spendthrift Walter’s derelict (7) 11 English drayman turns around to
backtrack (7)
12 ‘‘Aida‘‘ out of tune in Latin drag
misled the hounds (4,1,5,5)
13 The dentist’s garden? (4)
14 Run small cars in weaving trade (10) 17 Love call of an ass turns crude,
offering a hand without honour (10) 19 Miss the Sunday snooze (4)
22 Ice sauce, mix with a dash of brandy,
get a rich piece of one down (7,8) 23 Twothirds of a university, about,
produces fine linen (7)
24 Suit Zoe tailored for the fuller figure
(7)
25 Fame enough in the Royal Navy (6) 26 Glared round church and stiffened
(8)
DOWN
1 Yell and jeer nastily about women’s
adornments (9) 2 Stately home one enters in Spain (7) 3 Treasurer’s a clinger full of sex
appeal (6)
4 Order to crew — everyone’s cards
on the floor (3,5,2,4)
6 Abroad, remove clothes, leave
behind (8)
7 Rustic worker with vegetables (7) 8 Live in good health at Land’s End (5) 9 Answer to squash breaking distiller’s
flask (8,6) 15 Find fault with the girl turning up in
cloth remnant (9)
16 Time enough for procrastinator or
worm to turn (8)
18 Like Watling Street around our time?
I’ll work on it (7)
20 Rascally — like Jack? (7)
21 Fish King, a character in an ice show
(6)
22 One who gambles about the police
turning up (5)