LATERAL THINKING: CRYPTIC

Use the cryptic clues to solve this crossword with a twist.

ACROSS

8. Rustic pal clutched cooked roast (8)

9. Goes along with production of Grease (6)

10. Apparently opposed to poker stake (4)

11. Disturb Detective Inspector’s gig at stadium (10)

12. The third R - that figures! (10) 15. Impudent newcomer lifts jam pastry (7)

17. Little Arthur is an accomplished craftsman (7)

18. They’re found around waists in cars (5,5)

22. Going red, I enter carrying part of recipe (10)

24. Odd allusion, too (4) 25. Workers in stone like Mother and her boys (6)

26. Ad appears in restful romantic song (8)

DOWN

1. Shower products? (9)

2. Bear witness at cricket match (6) 3. Exchange German currency for brand symbols (10)

4. Shut the first cupboard (6) 5. Such a lovely internal glow (4) 6. Vegetable gave Rob colic disturbance (8)

7. Squints at noblemen, or those of equal rank (5) 13. Freshwater fish comes in to join the joiners (10)

14. Deer waits out by the river’s edge (9)

16. Monday to Sunday (8) 19. Reluctant to make a poem (6) 20. Longs for twelve months, north and south (6)

21. No apt version is readily available (2,3)

23. Danish leader and his broken bowl (4)