WEEKEND CROSS WORD
Senders of the first three correct entries opened will win 14-carat rolled gold Cross ball pens, each valued at £75.
Like all genuine Cross writing instruments, they will come with a genuine lifetime warranty, so are not only elegant prizes, but ones guaranteed to give our winners a lifetime of writing pleasure. Solutions must reach this office not later than first post next Thursday, and should be addressed: Weekend Crossword, The Scotsman, Level 8, Orchard Brae House, 30 Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, EH4 2HS.
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ACROSS
1 Person unlikely to be found out (7) 5 Runner William returned pan (7) 9 Try to solve seemingly improbable problem making one shape become another (6,3,6) 10 Song told stories (4) 11 Played with increasing speed damaging grindstone (10) 13 Alcohol removed from gory cell (8) 14 Rickshaw, British model first repeated (3,3) 16 Provide work for some temp, loyal worker (6) 18 Toiling over inclusion of a design that has been engraved (8) 21 Revised chapter OK about one sharp blow (6,4) 22 Some vanilla dye (4) 24 Dealing with something that one is familiar with while at home (2,4,3,6) 25 Unpredictable deserter taken in by Eric (7) 26 Monkey putting vegetables in still (7)
DOWN
1 I do not understand any of it in a foreign language (3,3,5,2,2) 2 Bewilder having exercise in potentially fusty surroundings (7) 3 Does this horse need this room? (4) 4 In which to go for a spin, one after another (8) 5 View prison, say, that’s picturesque! (6) 6 Fine white powder causing rig to collapse (5,5) 7 It is screwed on top of another, so it is not luck surprisingly, that prevents it from loosening (7) 8 Sage plant? (4,2,9) 12 Pedestrian’s carriage (10) 15 One is not able to sleep through it (8) 17 Room where one might eat ice cream (7) 19 Inside cell in gulag found small tongue-like part (7) 20 Imitating the sound it represents from choice (6) 23 Complain endlessly about handle (4)