Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Coach has hours with infant, a tree
climber (8)
5 Doctor’s farm animal gains foreign
capital (6)
9 Rigorous place for patients is towards
the rear (9)
11 Misguided loner to join up (5)
12 An escaped prisoner. A really big fish?
(3,4,3,4)
13 Assent one has to welcome? Not
entirely (5)
15 Removal of obstructions, obvious one
by Church (9)
17 Endure Hamlet, perhaps, round about
the end of the ball? (4,5)
19 A date to irritate a saint (5)
20 Stupid fellow’s seat’s on a chunk of
meat (6,2,6)
23 Nucleus of battalion? There’s no
gentleman about (5)
24 Drill team exercising — it’s
monotonous routine (9)
25 A medal put to some purpose — to
stupefy (6)
26 Supporters of BR? They’ve dropped off
(8)
DOWN
1 The wisest course possible for the
champion? (4,2,3)
2 What sounds like express English
airport (5)
3 Wailing fairy, a female involved in
destruction (7)
4 A cutie not wiggling in most excellent
Miss World competition? (6,7)
6 Frank has an affected manner, out of
doors (4,3)
7 Snip some toy, cutting middle out (9) 8 Run up and eat greedily (4) 10 After Lorna’s spirit, perhaps, we shall
want for nothing (2,7,4)
14 The world of rogues, potentially calm or
sad (9)
16 Ensnares fish in intricate nets (9) 18 Shifty people, by the grace of God
caught by active ones (7)
19 Move on wheels, manoeuvring under Lt
(7)
21 Transport for a cur? That’s about right
(5)
22 Fungal disease in various cabbages (4)