WEEKEND CROSSWORD

No 3253

ACROSS

1 Style on top sailors share (4,3) 5 Penny mixed broth with energy inside using vegetable for flavouring (3,4) 9 Support ephemera moving about in lofty region (5,10) 10 Some extra yogurts carried on vessel (4) 11 Third of committee approve one on mercy (10) 13 Most long-legged and thin gantries have been removed (8) 14 Taken the wrong way (6) 16 Drive black aero-engine (6) 18 Acknowledgements about said seats (8) 21 Heat treat various pasties going round half of continent (10) 22 Threesome there ready I’d observed initially (4) 24 Marriage is assessed in this US address (5,2,3,5) 25 Easier to carry match substitute (7) 26 Flowers having the perfume of wine (7)

DOWN

1 Opposing suggestion to salesman’s offer of marriage (7-8) 2 Was simple to describe (7) 3 One in the pack’s eccentric (4) 4 One in island race had short time to take advantage of bird (8) 5 Speedy help for forgetful actor (6) 6 Peter testy upsetting compositor (10) 7 After leisure, say, like remarkable book (7) 8 Preoccupation with a buzzing in the ears (3,2,4,6) 12 Very energetic excitable deputy ruler (10) 15 Coming from Beamish, Frenchman included European lady in India (8) 17 Greek character squashed gnats on wild horse (7) 19 Person’s usual haunt is tract of land in royal forest (7) 20 What gentlemen do to blondes? (6) 23 Communications codeword in African language (4)