Kropotkin 1055

Across

4. Captain Scott’s beginning to be in range (8)

8. Cattle beast can be butchered here if captured (6)

9. Preserving half-portion of pike and heads of cod, kahawai, and other fish (8)

10. Coconut shy – is this a legitimate target? (4,4)

11. One making something specified with one wing (6)

12. Where you will find one bone in Tika dish (8)

13. Praise too much – reportedly it was an operation (8)

16. Some plants well-built in the past (8)

19. Shuts up shop in Japan and suchlike (8)

21. Somewhere on Wanganui flat road: in this place post office will be found (6)

23. Press, and wear out? It’s not likely to (8)

24. Rex very keen to go into old department store to get a description of some languages (8)

25. Each drink laced with Ecstasy? Don’t have so many! (4,2)

26. Huntsman is Charles. Sure? Possibly (8)

Down

1. Such finery from Algeria (7)

2. A permanent army post half of Maoriori needed all the more (1,8)

3. Types of medieval polyphony requiring pipe instrument accompaniment initially (6)

4. Better place to work on river in general, usually (8,7)

5. Urinate into ditch: destroyed a Hellebore (8)

6. Put caps in heap with one at the bottom (5)

7. Man of the land slid away from a kind of door ... (7)

14. ... at any rate the most sage? On the contrary (9)

15. Pet duck died left in open boat (8)

17. Where we live among all possibilities? (2,5)

18. Pot of ale (‘Courage’) not finished (4,3)

20. Hanging things here so nose can get broken (6)

22. The claim that the man they called The King lives is mistaken (5) Last week’s solution

()=included, []=excluded

Across: 8. G-Rav-Amen 9. loaf-ER

10. barre-N 11. c-andour 12. Marshal-l

13. S(cote)R 14. Just So S-Tories 17. gi(BB-O)n 18. nosedi(V)e 21. Bristow

23. R(EC)-ent 24. B-rooks 25. CoveN-try

Down: 1. E-R-rata 2. ivorists 3. omenta 4. knuckle sandwich 5. C-ling-s to

6. Iago 7. f(earl)ess 14. jail-bird

15. s-an(it)ise 16. Indi(C)ans {Miami =Indian tribe} 19. sh-rove 20. vintry

22. IpoH