WEE THINKER

Across

Footnote beside second muscle (7) No embargo for Scottish port (4) Idiot with brain, but no head! (3) Stupidly stops near interchange (9) Reveal memo left lying around (3,2) Where safari may be organised, but capital of Cameroon, not Sweden? (6) Pleasant attempt to remove right subtle point (6) Your sin: eager hugging like a bear (6) Entertainer with hardy shrub (6) Antelope from Eastern country (5) Not protected from setting sun, ruined (9) 24 Manage to sprint (3) 25 Can never hold girl (4) 26 Soldiers’ bike to use

again (7) 1 5 10 11 12 13 15 17 18 20 23

Down

2 Sports official takes it for refurbishment (5) 3 Spirited things to do with a sword? (3,3,6)

Across

1 Informal

photograph (4) 5 Common freshwater

fish (4) 8 Group of musical notes sounded together (5) 9 Small branch (4) 11 Opposite of ‘fail’ (4) 12 Large insect often

seen over ponds (9) 15 Cap (3) 17 Light purple colour (5) 19 Bent down ready to pray (5) Brass musical instrument (7) Hot (food) (5) 20 21 4 6 7 8 9

Redesigned La Paz square (5) Over inch out on British Airways (7) Christmas beano elaborately concealed (4) Injured owl is to settle on flat terrain (7) However dye runs, rifle is easy to operate (4-8) 22 14 16 19 21 22

Telephone about object splitting (7) Old trumpet in carol arrangement (7) Some of the popular gentry are big (5) Sound of the mouth or of the ear (5) Young fox on a Caribbean island (4)

Extremely big person (5) Container for jam (3) Mail-order book (9) Stop (4) Lounge around (4) Goods transported by ship (5) Pond lizard-like creature (4) 33 Colour-stained (4) Down 1 Building plot (4) 2 Barren, parched (4) 3 Upper part of the

leg (5) 4 Snort like a pig (5) 6 On holiday (4) 7 Annoying person (4) 23 26 29 30 31 32 10 11 13 14 16 18 19 23 24 25 26 27 28

Heavy outdoor garment (9) In good supply (9) Porridge ingredient (7) Thin (strands of hair) (5) Hold on tightly (5) Snivel, blubber (3) Beer vat (3) Country whose capital is Tokyo (5) Not smooth (5) Part of the face (4) Hooked nail of a bird (4) Uncomplicated (4) Legal document (4)