Weekend crossword
2060
ACROSS
1 School class almost entirely
methodical (6)
4 Struggled and searched thoroughly
round a kind of square (8)
9 Touching electrical unit, rise up (6) 10 Elizabeth the Queen rings me, a steel
process inventor (8)
12 What to do if one of two crackers is a
dud? Don’t try to fool me! (4,3,5,3) 13 Looking miserable, having eaten
nothing, we plead with a person (9) 14 Indistinctness of speech noticeable in
drunks, lurching (4)
17 King has one contest (4)
19 Discharged, evade a cut somehow (9) 22 To draw a salary, getting slack, is to be
a bit dotty (4,1,5,5)
23 Each slender architectural structure
makes one sweat (8)
24 Lieutenant, concealing strain, produces
lasso (6)
25 Long to be enveloped by sleep,
showing a drugged state (8)
26 Inferior ship — have a sly look around
it (6)
DOWN
1 Effective weight of weaponry to
inflame influential state (45)
2 Parson, radiating love, to do the rounds
(7)
3 Everything gets ‘eated and dished out
(8)
5 Where to travel endlessly, at random,
across the sea (4,3,5)
6 Beaten, bachelor cast off (6)
7 Act the goat, causing MO lot of upset
(7)
8 Gravity evident in dreadful funeral song
(5) 11 Be dismissed and receive Christmas
greetings? (3,4,5)
15 Russian landlord’s memorable sort of
day (36)
16 Complete effrontery, looking straight at
the camera? (44)
18 Concealment of information about
being in the Cup (52)
20 Subjects about right for hot areas (7) 21 Discourage and obstruct a writer (6) 22 With work coming in he’d had
expectations (5)