Kropotkin 1028

Across

5. Begin to change for a person (5)

7. Gelling agent made by twisting a rag around a fish (4-4)

9. ‘Old Nick’, a parrot, approaching Old Nick’s Head (8)

10. Birds coming in trucks? Heartless! (6)

11. Guy had one that didn’t succeed in bed (4)

12. A drug distributed in sacks we hear would not fall out because of them (10)

13. Groups assembled about one who succeeded Mahler in partnership (7)

15. Old-time greeting used in play (7)

18. Stay with a large reptile, one having offspring (10)

20. An island people: plant kiss on one of them (4)

21. Theologian providing California with wine grown in France (6)

22. Pass over girl: repelled, being of great size (8)

23. Energy wasted in physical training? Sounds like sweet is needed (4,4)

24/3 Royal Household officers stole penny (bent, gilded) (5,8)

Down

1. Small child allowed to hide under some leather (6)

2. ‘Studio’ – right answer? Wrong all round (7)

3. (See 24)

4. After Peter Jackson experienced fire this remained (3,3)

5. Somehow boil without power a recipe found in North & South (7)

6. Popish sort of chap, old fellow with wine (3,2,8) Last week’s solution

()=included, []=excluded

Across: 1. chop s-hot {tennis}

6. Picar-D 9. Kod(I)ak 10. Low-lands

11. Fa(s)t O-F A v 12. relic-t 13. poleva(ult)ers 16. Ravens-bo(U)rne

19. stack-S 21. [The] Third Man {cricket} 23. b.-abeld(o)m 24. inland

25. coa(S)ts 26. Me(N)ander Down: 2. hooray 3. point 4. Huka Falls {hooker} 5. Tel (A)viv 6. Power {four generations} 7. Char-Lotte 8. Red s-care 13. p-reachers

14. U-K-rainian 15. castr(a T)o

17. op-ti-mum 18. Can-nae 20. [back] sides 22. Dyla-n