THE WEEK CROSSWORD 1172
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 2 September. Send it to: The Week Crossword 1172, 2nd floor, 32 Queensway, London W2 3RX, or email the answers to crossword@theweek.co.uk. Tim Moorey (timmoorey.info)
ACROSS
1 Angry detectives relax catching neat killer (3,3,7)
8 Corrupt party departs first (7) 9 Outstanding depth of colour in solvent (7)
11 Honest Joanna (7)
12 Priest’s latest matters – they may be used after a blessing (7)
13 Name for someone, principally a failure? (5)
14 State aid? None is distributed (9) 16 Thoroughly depressed? Correct (9)
19 No thanks for distinguished peer? (5)
21 Divulging secrets is effective (7) 23 Go back over ground terrace (7) 24 Hot money for cybercriminals (7) 25 Hearing range suffering shortage, golf abandoned (7)
26 Gallery in quiet centre is up-to-the minute (5,2,3,3)
DOWN
2 No good hoping for pain relief (7) 3 Blunder caught Australia’s cricket coach (7)
4 Struggling girls went wild (9) 5 Home apartment not suitable (5) 6 I dismissed act of coming out for American poet (7)
7 Japanese governors display weapons for an audience (7)
8 Replicated ‘ousing for rabbits and bull! (6,5)
10 Ignoring children, TV channel seem out of order showing bondage (11)
15 Cleaner put off bloke (9) 17 Well, it’s an unofficial strike (7) 18 Design used in torn old clothing (7)
19 Club with boozy peer in it quietly dropping off? (7)
20 Brother keeps turning machine in bunk (7)
22 Some Angus tomato relish (5)