FRIDAY CROSSWORD

Across

1 Bad form of school punishment time’s forgotten (4) 3 Lets things fall on motorway? We may gobble them up! (4,6) 9 Neighbour, source of annoyance with objection (4) 10 Celebrant wandering around a place of worship (10) 11 Mechanical device hit vessel (7) 13 Start song definitely not in the concert hall (4-3) 14 Hiding prisoner and gangster in stuff on building site (11) 18 Relative that may have more (11) 21 Bits of food a Greek character fed to cats and dogs? (7) 22 Final message bringing comfort to Zeus’s lover (7) 23 Worthy Conservative and socialist I put forward (10) 24 Some of the videos played back in sleazy bar (4) 25 No longer having money, conk out inside – a practical solution? (10) 26 Noticed lustre, hard to miss (4)

Down

1 Fruit and fish where goods are unloaded in port (8) 2 Swearing when nothing is caught in illegal hunting? (8) 4 Show opposition as a court after monarch’s overthrown (5) 5 No soldiers in disorderly heap will appear as remarkable people (9) 6 Study, wanting money amount per hour? Don’t daydream! (11) 7 Kissed ‘er, did you say? That’s sweet! (6) 8 Drink the female bishop gets before Sunday’s ending (6) 12 Deep in thought and quiet, couple cried, sadly left abandoned (11) 15 Mad pal – he’s wrecked bit of furniture (9) 16 I’m in gear that’s outrageous – a problem for the head (8) 17 This writer left poem on musical instrument (8) 19 A revolutionary entertaining the old man, settler in Oklahoma? (6) 20 Became chums again? Not true! (4,2) 22 Pain that’s funny – heart transplant needed! (5)