DOUBLE TROUBLE

ACROSS 8 Sculptor’s medium (9) 9 Baked pastry dish (3) 10 Public outrage (7) 11 Abrupt, plain-spoken (5) 12 Thick pile (of paper) (3) 14 Working hard (8)

16 Sinister controlling person (8) 18 Small round mark (3) 21 Musical about an orphan (5) 23 Write (music or a story) (7) 25 ___ Green, actress who played Bond girl Vesper Lynd (3) ACROSS 8 White mineral (9) 9 ___ in the Sky, 1990s detective series starring Richard Griffiths (3)

10 Notes on a ___, Judi Dench film (7) 11 James ___, You’re Beautiful singer (5) 12 Bankroll (3) 14 Transplanting (a cutting) on to another stock (8) 16 Villain of the novel Trilby (8) 18 Point placed over a letter of the alphabet (3) 21 ___ Leibovitz, celebrity photographer (5) 23 Calm, settle (7) 25 ___ Braun, Hitler’s companion (3) 26 ___ Cole, veteran British comedy actress (9) DOWN 1 City whose international airport is named after Frédéric Chopin (6) 2 Concealed wall in parkland (2-2) 26 Princess ___ of Monaco, Grace Kelly’s daughter (9) DOWN 1 Polish capital (6) 2 Sound of laughter (2,2) 3 Button-up sweater (8) 4 ___ McCartney, designer (6)

5 Insect larva (4) 6 Snub (nose) (8) 7 Open uncultivated land (5) 13 From Exeter, for example (8) 15 Roman victory parades (8)

3 Seaside town of west Wales (8) 4 ___ Gibbons, Cold Comfort

Farm author (6) 5 Food (4)

6 Virgin Soil ___, novel by Sholokhov (8) 7 British prime minister, 1970-74 (5) 13 Geological era when amphibians appeared (8) 15 Prevails (8) 17 Anne ___, Fatal Attraction actress (6) 19 Move unsteadily (6)

20 The Canterbury ___, Chaucer work (5) 22 Leisure (4) 24 Is the freeholder of (4)

17 Sign of Sagittarius (6) 19 Be on the point of falling (6) 20 Stories (5) 22 Absence of effort (4) 24 ___ up, admits (4)