Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Grossly exaggerate the size of a fish? A
big fiddle (64)
6 March with a brass instrument in
retreat (4)
10 Curse, mother a wild animal’s eaten the
last bit of haggis (7)
11 Wordy States man breaks into poetry
(7)
12 Aid to roofers, making a run longer?
(9,6)
13 Moving phrase for an angel (6) 15 Surrounded by tedious talkers, quietly
gets on (8)
17 They’re found in bedroom drawers, not
far from the neckwear (8)
18 Hamlet, for instance, set me back
about 25 pounds (6)
21 Light dawned — lost a bit of small
change (3,5,7)
23 Definitely it’s the thing (7)
24 In regard to offspring, a paperback
edition? (7)
25 This fish is divine after rugger (4) 26 Game with a pack of cards in the
captain’s territory (64)
DOWN
1 Curses about exercise — acts like a
wet blanket (7)
2 A bed in Paris, in the dark (5)
3 Getting beaten at one’s own game and
becoming exasperated (6,8)
4 Brigand in a gang — Italian (6) 5 Barbarism of badly made gravy sea (8) 7 Little brother ’ad to live on one
vegetable (5,4)
8 He’s tucking into pastries, some of the
finer things of life (3,4) 9 Baker’s pie roams freely — shows
one’s not to be trusted (6,1,7)
14 Bird eaten by King Edward wished it
had been otherwise (9)
16 Animal to curb with the grass coming
up (8)
17 Unjust description of a brunette? (3,4) 19 Uptake not bright, sounding feeble?
Must be Wednesday (7)
20 Beloved tot imbibing mineral (6) 22 Crooked set after dad’s dough (5)