The Cryptic
ACROSS
1. Idiotic man of many parts – change! (12)
8. Linesman’s city, with CIA involvement (7)
9. Seraphs compose brief remarks (7)
11. Thunder god with one thousand covering uranium – and another radioactive metal (7)
12. A query: turn a song around in
fish tanks (7)
13. Stilettos for bad people (5)
14. Tip: they say back the woman
– she’s confused (9)
16. Set me ablaze – a line needed
for a snack (5,4)
19. Pursue church like English (5) 21. Lines from the French –
French is the most tedious (7) 23. Turnbull with a song – it can
make you sick (7)
24. Remain evil – it never goes
away (5,2)
25. More lively one included in
fastening for trousers (7)
26. Crusoe to alter direction (6,6)
DOWN
1. 1099 costume – it’s very small (7)
2. Fades away over the East – it could be Venus and Mars (7) 3. Story about the French two thousand – it will catch fire! (9)
4. Policeman and god provide fibre (5)
5. Time hot, coarse material is over (7)
6. Old boy to wait and watch (7) 7. Les, bad, dangerous and illegal (12)
10. Panelbeating jobs – shams! (5,7)
15. Potassium, in the style of master menagerie, for Michigan city (9)
17. Go, halt; I am beaten by a giant (7)
18. Treachery from bent senator (7)
19. State one for each measuring device (7)
20. Queue for broadcast? Take the
plane! (7)
22. Trace metal – turn over for
example (5)
Solution next week