National Post (National Edition)
CRYP TIC CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Senior officer and I hail RAF
marches on manoeuvres (3,5,7) 9 South American doctor’s put by pass needed by old Scotsman (9)
10 Get up with cold leg? (5) 11 Combined chant after
time passes (2,3)
12 This writer pronounced batsman to be startling phenomenon (3-6)
13 Greek character gets
straw matting for bird (8) 14 Firearm recoiled many times,
used by investigator (6)
16 Stay with two bridge
players in trip (6)
18 Fantastic tenor and another briefly entering company, source of music (8) 22 Playwright encapsulating
rogue fence (9)
23 Place in military unit
journalist holding award (5) 24 Modify introduction
to text lacking force (5)
25 An early form of fuel? (9) 26 None conceived of new-fangled
burger, say (11,4)
DOWN
1 A dispute right off
in public sale (7)
2 Launch posh car with final
part not seen in public (4,3) 3 Slam troubled land embracing distasteful and ultimately obsolete emblem (6,3,6) 4 Grounds for believing study going into European depravity (8)
5 Lord’s house that’s
said to show style (6) 6 Precinct with one tree adapted
for emergency facility? (9,6) 7 Shock coverage? (7) 8 Lavish bill to be settled
— about time (7)
15 Flat, perhaps — small verbal joke that’s unsophisticated (8) 16 Mechanical corrosion overwhelms old boy in charge (7)
17 Lad must limit desire to
be performer in theatre (7) 19 Bill with a cost largely
obscured for sauce (7) 20 Given command, soldiers
act to overcome resistance (7) 21 Seasoned food served up
in Lima — lashings! (6)