WH Crossword

ACROSS

1 Reckless attitude made Alice very mad (5-3-4)

8 Story of bank deposit (7) 9 Hereditary factors are singularly evident from birth (7)

11 Make money, outlining article of pottery (7)

12 Varnish the man will put into a bag (7)

13 Some crude murals made people raise objections (5)

14 Agent makes attempt to gamble very little before noon (2-7)

16 Tito’s real potential as a philosopher (9)

19 Take it as read that one is in a job (5)

21 Excellent investments (7) 23 Retired detectives get into trouble — in a manner of speaking (7)

24 Business meeting makes pronouncement relinquishing rights (7)

25 Agitated joyriders find satisfaction there (2, 1, 4)

26 Cease to care if dividends fall in value (4, 8)

DOWN

1 Interior design with little doubt requires propriety (7) 2 He guarantees it’s an IOU (7) 3 At length I made good — at the eleventh hour? (4-5)

4 Arab leader, for instance, is in need of protection (5)

5 Study examination question (7)

6 Will find another answer (7) 7 Go ahead and proposition the lady (4, 8)

10 Best to transfer to

Islington (6, 2, 4)

15 Where bakers may work at subsistence level (9)

17 Laying it on thick one minute after zero hour (7)

18 Songsters cite Tim in error (7)

19 Choose a chopper and mattock (7)

20 Trim Fido’s fur a little bit (7) 22 Fabric acquired from a mill in Enfield (5)