Last Week’s Cryptic

ACROSS 1. Pine Cove, producer of Hiawatha (10)

7. Music with English – John or Paul, perhaps (4)

9. Up a camel? Absurd, I’m sorry (3,5)

10. Castle that is very green (6)

11. Loves being involved in

tornado research (6)

13. Removed the dinner? Well

merited (8)

14. Owned a cob of corn – the girl went very close! (3,1,4,4) 17. January 5, immortalised by Shakespeare (7,5)

20. Megastar comedians return to surround Barack Obama, for one (8)

21. Summer fruit – call out around

that woman (6)

22. X worker, a lodger (6)

23. 11 consume on the old

fashioned sofa (4,4)

25. Short vacation to keep

Australian in the pen (4)

26. Tall building reconstructed

from cypress ark (10) DOWN 2. Go into debt after stalemate (8)

3. Good for credit, they called it – economic meltdown of the last decade (1,1,1)

4. 51 in Ernie, Havelock or Bob (5)

5. Hero’s partner, the French and a queen (7)

6. Writer has merit, but dims badly inside (9)

7. Mutant viper ogress leftie! (11) 8. Prepared a number divisible with its only factors one and itself – 500! (6)

12. Any race riot suitable for a right winger (11)

15. Abhor former English box

(9)

16. A dearth – a brief time (8)

18. Gross friend, but deadly (7)

19. Transmitted again – grumble!

(6)

21. 101599 dealing with townships

(5)

24. The main clue (3)