CROSSWORD

Clues across

6. Hold back a grandparent, say (7)

7. Call from court for a couple of spots (5)

9. Most of the employees come back for cheese and butter (4)

10. Dessert with white wine produces tremor (10)

11. Generously entertain with queenly English (6)

12. Deliberate damage makes a beast go crazy (8)

14. A nasty ego, that’s about right for this fiend (4)

16. Short break in feat announced! (5)

17. Make over by revolutionary opposition leader (4)

18. Material for the deck specified by top man in architecture? (8)

19. Lacking any order, managed party before Monday (6)

21. Moral tales or possibly lies galore (10)

24. Man, perhaps, is misled at heart (4)

25. In reserve with nothing decent (2,3)

26. A vessel, brownish and sort of dark (7)

Clues down

1. Tuna scarce unfortunately; get a crayfish (10)

2. Look out for social worker containing conflict (6)

3. Gumption shown by removing middle from grapefruit (4)

4. Abroad, playing around with the French – lovely (8)

5. A selection of whatever you choose produces a pained expression (4)

6. A bit of snow, imitation, left inside (5)

8. Betrothed, then abandoned Georgia for California, now in jail (7)

12. Hit with a sandbag, German is peeved (5)

13. Despotic art cannily disguised (10)

15. The Italian in a strong wind with nothing on is a famous astronomer (7)

16. Is one in the seed case laced with arsenic? (8)

19. Feel indignant having transmitted again? (6)

20. Decrepit oldie is prepared for massage (5)

22. Emerald Isle in The Lord of the Rings (4)

23. The Greek letter I found in reading the riot act (4)