Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Bays and sinks teeth in, we hear (6) 4 Investment that’s risky if in charge — that’s definite (8) 9 Use one’s last resources, as a rusty bullet may do (6,3, 6) 11 Modern artist one youth rejected (4) 12 Singlecolour picture representing common hero (10) 14 One way to make a delivery surreptitious (9) 15 Right to have titled woman back in the Lake District (5) 17 Litter lying in unused annexe (5) 19 Feature of Athens or Paris, cool when it’s windy (9) 21 Playing pranks cunningly for getting a beating (10) 22 A doctor’s a minor prophet (4) 24 Singers get their turn to book in at hotel (4,3, 8) 25 Steep planet almost consumed (8) 26 Hydrogen weapon — it tears up the land (6)
DOWN
1 Graduate’s calculations about doctor’s instruments (4, 5) 2 Dress was first to get mangled (7) 3 Place put up for spinners (4) 5 Swagger about the East and consider excessive influence (13) 6 Tutor has moral lapses in excursions (55) 7 Abstain from rum almost permanently (3, 4) 8 Left in hollow to give birth (5) 10 Was inconspicuous, and astonished one in the group (4,1, 4, 4) 13 A crooked sort trains a receiver (10) 16 The very limit of endurance, to survive on street untrained (4, 5) 18 Dryness, severe, in the midst of the shakes (7) 20 Bounder left one little child on top of roof (7) 21 One may blow them, causing commotion, around the East (5) 23 Half the bullfighters are this type (4)