Crossword MORE CROSSWORDS IN TABLOID!

ACROSS 1 Penny weighing very little? That’s a predicament (6) 9 Asking for gent, squire’s all over the place (10) 10 Disguise chef finally having mixed guacamole outside (10) 11 Crazy, but often seen with motive? (4)

12 A giant in excited eagerness (4)

14 First step, introduce about four (10)

17 Devil getting on with mostly agreeable Kelvin (3,4) 18 Grouse making grand deepsound? (7)

20 Steep slope recent maps disguised (10)

21 Power of wife lying in state (4)

22 Officer has American drink (4)

23 Direct empty cartridge close to target (5-5)

25 Might England’s openers consolidate? (10) 26 Excessively bright rig has collapsed (6) DOWN

2 Messenger is beaten going round metropolis (3,7)

3 Travel carrying little weight in island (4)

4 Officer’s phoney tip-off – car about to be seized (7,3)

5 Wretched group circling Long Island (7)

6 Present from the residents (4)

7 Always a metallist suffered (2,3,5)

8 Take no notice of Italian gentleman failing to start (6)

13 Trap positions American inside pretentious public houses (3,7)

15 Bringing up to scratch, perhaps that’s annoying (10)

16 Half-dozen with nasty allusion that is wicked (10)

19 In France, I love crossing wealthy city (7)

20 Cut tax (6) 23 Get stick for going up and down? (4)

24 Look always beyond lake (4)