CROSSWORD CLUES

ACROSS

1 Weekly pay (5) 4 Snapshot (5) 10 On top of or higher than (5) 11 Soft laugh (7) 12 Gradually, progressively (3,2,3) 13 Soft fine feathers (4) 15 Stockings (6) 17 Rook in chess (6) 19 Percussion instrument (4) 20 Prediction (8) 23 Try (7) 24 Major artery (5) 25 Employment (5) 26 Opposite of tails (5)

DOWN

2 Great pain (5) 3 Each person (8) 5 Sixty minutes (4) 6 Extract, remove (4,3) 7 Undercarriage (7,4) 8 Fragment (5) 9 Primitive (11) 14 Tear jaggedly (8) 16 Syrupy cough medicine (7) 18 Value, price (5) 21 Pungent (5) 22 Polluted mist (4)