Weekend crossword

2007

ACROSS

1 Friendly note evident in a brief

message (8)

5 Go off around the East, making a

frightful noise (6)

9 It’s true about head of government

being like a queen (5)

10 My acting’s rotten, jerky as it were (9) 12 What the bad tribe stirred up, anxiously

(4,5,6)

13 Front’s dropped off bed? That hurts! (4) 15 A dunce wandering, without a bit of

money, without stress (10)

18 Stores of corn found in the pub in cans

(55)

19 I’m worshipped in Hokkaido, loudly (4) 21 Tiny chest pummelled by masseur’s

artificial product (9,6)

23 Fairy’s hat, we hear, square, with

columns all round (9)

24 Rare object makes one inquisitive? Not

us (5)

25 Extortionate price answer’s seen in

reduced capital (6)

26 They speak outandout Irish endlessly

(8)

DOWN

1 Plant producing missile — give noisy

support (9) 2 Elected, acquired a mass of gold,

perhaps (5)

3 Liberal, appearing in commercials,

speaks off the cuff (24)

4 Soldiers land baby on railway (58)

6 A series about the king and me, people

who preside (8)

7 Former leaflet the editor selected (9) 8 A prophet upset him about accountant

(5)

11 Ices the nice MD distributed in a box of

remedies (85) 14 Snub, and manage to get away quickly

(3,3,3)

16 Wandering priest accommodated by

doctor, having unpaid debts (9) 17 Composing this poem is the very devil

(8)

20 The man, after fast mostly, gets

savoury dish (6)

21 Minor actor has drink with Her Majesty

(5)

22 Gathering round the navy in

Switzerland (5)