Crossword Puzzle

Across

1 The tales they tell! Fabulous according to those French (6) 8 So there’s a company of lions performing satirical imitations? (8) 9 Take your turn or eat tea right now (6) 10 Little Connie, so hackneyed and so penitent (8) 11 Make it up or find it in some escape outlet (6) 13 Just for the record, it’s how you should greet a knight (8) 16 Said you would give us more dips, as it were (8) 19 Gee! There’s an opening here for the upper class (6) 22 Get to spot in a tea break one who is a deserter (8) 24 Love apple? Then you’ll love this (6) 25 Just can’t get Reed to hold that wine! (8) 26 Takes one sly ode and sings like this with it (6)

Down

2 A little oak is a painful thing (5) 3 Permission to depart? (5) 4 Give my respects when they put in their appearances (8) 5 It’s all rain in this part of the world (4) 6 Ron gets sad when one embellishes it like this (6) 7 The insect gets let out only to find another come in (6) 12 How to vote and prevent it from taking place (4) 14 Why drag it out? Get with all those ingenious little things (8) 15 Anyway, sounds like a car to me! (4) 17 That’s right! A jetty is the place to bear a sword (6) 18 The accident happened when my mother was on the ship (6) 20 No insane wanderer this one! (5) 21 Look later and you’ll find that badgered beast (5) 23 There’s a lot to be said for such a voice (4)