WH Crossword

ACROSS

1 New chalet to have drier in the kitchen (3, 5) 5 Robinson’s friend I would take into battle (6) 8 Decoy caught in apparent rapture (6) 9 Decade which saw development of Einstein (8) 10 Food in cans (8) 11 Nick, smash hit with first lady (6) 12 Plot to take first-class return could be a bloomer! (8) 13 Blighted Sunday in pickled environment (6) 15 Fly Spitfire by day (6) 18 Barnaby in boring donkeywork (8) 20 Hood, for example, no longer fashionable with city women (6) 21 Little Richard has GBS’s passenger vehicle (8) 23 Lazy person exhausted, from the sound of it (8) 24 Dive we abandoned, having looked in (6) 25 Birds’ beaks no longer? (6) 26 Fun to drive in the garden (8)

DOWN

1 Contemptible sort taking article from Belgian port (5) 2 Sort of paper-round? (9) 3 Town-dweller, I pop out and play (7) 4 England leathers wayward kids who get lost in the woods (6, 3, 6) 5 Does one display wild antic to football legislators? (7) 6 Motorists’ clubs? (7) 7 Wild-eyed satyr of most recent history (9) 12 Cut, more traditional feature of the Oval (9) 14 Makes an impression with different voices (9) 16 Gunners detect a hectic, competitive routine (3, 4) 17 They take their rods to divine water (7) 19 Reveal a French disguise (7) 22 Half-deaf in battle? Snipe, perhaps (5)