CROSSWORD
Clues across
1. A little comes back about one providing solid support for a member (5) 4. An interval of leisure when the curtain rises? (8) 8. Ludicrous fellow with racial problem involving cocaine (8) 9. Henry joins Mum somehow and you and me for a dip in the Eastern Mediterranean (6) 10. A genuine mistake about West Pacific Island (3,6) 11. Flipping weeks lacking energy put a different slant on things (4) 12. Bull artist, might be charged (7) 13. The same old story: when son and letters from old mates have gone, all you have left is conjecture (6) 15. Gets the goods, lots (6) 17. A radical leader holding device giving a great deal of illumination (3,4) 19. Commercials on the radio for supplements (4) 21. New point of order: pie banned where a knocker is likely to be (5,4) 23. Undermine one representative before broadcast (6) 24. Cook chickpeas without hydrogen: just the things for cooler heads perhaps (3,5) 25. Pan cadet repaired in a performance at the plumbers’ ball? (3-5) 26. Give up an income from property (5)
Clues down
1. Mark’s two wailwoad wagons (5) 2. Support drinking supply for an isolated community (9) 3. Collected oil of a sort for the hearing (7) 4. Some children slip up making beverage (7) 5. Articles on creative work in reality, despite appearances (2,5) 6. Newspaper called for multiplication (5) 7. A snare made of pure atoms (9) 12. Road surface, one with a tree (9) 14. Complex East Australian political party scoffed (9) 16. Crop secure, face endless crocus (7) 17. Suffer anguish as one is buckling under a government head (7) 18. Charlie reinterpreted treaty: this is not a permanent home (7) 20. Singular solid fragment (5) 22. Tidied the garden when inclined (5)