DOUBLE TROUBLE

ACROSS

8 Reptile like an alligator (9) 9 A couple (3) 10 Long-running motoring programme (3,4) 11 Go to press (5) 12 Swine (3) 14 Retired for the night (6,2) 16 Upton ___, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (8) 18 American word for ‘petrol’ (3) 21 Pickled bud used in sauces (5) 23 At a fixed frequency (7) 25 Large tea dispenser (3) 26 Twenty-four hours ago (9)

DOWN

1 Drink distilled from malted barley (6) 2 Circle of rope (4) 3 Relating to home matters (8) 4 Glass for checking your appearance (6) 5 Remain fresh (4) 6 Withdrawing labour (8) 7 Compartment used for voting (5) 13 Holding tightly (8) 15 Tea flavoured with bergamot (4,4) 17 Direction of some clues in this puzzle! (6) 19 Scatters (water) in tiny droplets (6) 20 Clean with a brush (5) 22 Fish also known as skates (4) 24 Titled woman (4)

ACROSS

8 ___ Dundee, film (9) 9 ___ and a Half Men, US sitcom (3) 10 Fourth or fifth in a car (3,4) 11 Typeface (5) 12 Large powerful motorbike, chopper (3) 14 Handed over, submitted (6,2) 16 ___ Lewis, author of Elmer

Gantry (8) 18 All ___ and Gaiters, 1960s sitcom centred around a cathedral (3) 21 Daft escapade (5) 23 Even (7) 25 Ode on a Grecian ___, Keats poem (3) 26 ___ Once More, Carpenters hit single (9)

DOWN

1 ___ woodcock, scrambled eggs and anchovies on toast (6) 2 Aerobatic manoeuvre (4) 3 Colloquial term for a servant (8) 4 Reflect (6) 5 Castle tower (4) 6 Eye-catching, pronounced (8) 7 Connie ___, Polly in Fawlty

Towers (5) 13 Fully absorbing (8) 15 1830-34 PM (4,4) 17 Over (6) 19 Small arrangements of flowers (6) 20 Brushwood (5) 22 Beams (4) 24 ___ and the Tramp, Disney film (4)