Weekend crossword

ACROSS

1 Writing the special constable has torn,

we hear (6)

4 Little drink made sharp, is drawn off (8) 9 Enid’s pale, shivering, put at a

disadvantage (9)

11 Pastries, etc. beginning to stain folds in

garment (5)

12 What Croesus had — amazing! — by

breaking the law (8, 6)

13 Reckless king clinging to tree (4) 14 Nextbest clothes, needed when going

up steep hills? (6, 4)

16 Underground river used by sovereign is

capital (10)

18 Foreign flower in hotel bedroom (4) 21 Wrongly claimed the man’s Conservative, showing record of past complaints (7, 7)

23 Wear out the Queen with an elaborate

lyric (5)

24 Experimental temporary home took in

about four (9)

25 The girl tolerates beasts with strong

embraces (35)

26 Bashful about a geegee having coarse

hair (6)

DOWN

1 Drinks and eats late in the day (4) 2 Fugitives shaking oneoff in parts of

airfield (7)

3 Come to a stop, going up or down

(4, 2)

5 A slight illness in Diana’s place (13) 6 Impetuous people endlessly hog the

commercials (8)

7 Part of the plane the French female can

climb (7)

8 Old copper is taking on accusation,

securing acquittal (9)

10 Rooster, a loner, will mingle eventually

(6,2, 5) 13 Recalls engineers needing arms,

perhaps (9)

15 Hard stuff to study on a Mediterranean

island (8)

17 Future amphibian wriggling in old peat

(7)

19 Family engaged in great limitless

frolicking (7)

20 Connect a particular race with a lot of

pain(6)

22 Live five years in company of ladies (4)