THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1120

An Ettinger travel pass case and two Connell Guides will be given to the sender of the first correct solution to the crossword and the clue of the week opened on Monday 27 August. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1120, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (www.timmoorey. info)

ACROSS

1 French writer retains parking in university area (6)

5 Get rid of blasted mole inside hollow (8) 9 No fellow for partying (4,4)

10 Pay sadly going backwards on the railway (6)

11 How you may buy lager and fall – it makes you livid (12)

13 Life assurance company spoken of in Leith? (4)

14 Stranger holding line in street around early walkers (8)

17 One gets caught in Russian police chief bugs (8)

18 Misses prodigal son? Only partly (4)

20 Failing in Conservative newspaper when last orders taken (7,5)

23 Get lost around heart of Whitehall? What a laugh (6) 24 Climate’s affected climber (8) 25 Drive away with Eastern rum (8) 26 Put off stuffing last of salami? I should be (6)

DOWN

2 Mounted first sixteen letters! (4) 3 I’d put in now to get Trump (9) 4 Put an end to whisky? (6) 5 Could be the tale certified in novel (8,7)

6 Sounds like what a homesick Yorkshireman does for fools (8)

7 Ring up about one purple shrub (5)

8 Bound to top the list in Chinese takeaway? (6,4)

12 Fear parts of canal causing sort of shocks (10)

15 Member is behind what diets can do (9) 16 Presenter in the van? (5,3) 19 Threaten demon with death (6) 21 Drive cattle (5) 22 Terribly evil? (4)