Weekend crossword

ACROSS

1 One may be pushed in this tub daily

about one (45)

6 Rex in a hole — something to do with

a joint (5)

9 You won’t catch me on a motorway (7) 10 Rich material for a Brother Jack? (7) 11 The more wholesome of the shilling

vintage goes in a pack of pigs (7, 2, 5) 13 Got up with something in one’s shoe;

that’s standard for gardeners (44) 14 Requisition tinned nuts (6)

16 Girl from deepest Hertfordshire (6) 18 Norfolk town always cut off (8) 21 Highfalutin’ language that can come

from e.g. canned liquor (14)

23 Horse in Germany — many thrown;

this one sounds distressed (7)

24 Young limb learning to beg (7) 25 Mayday around morning in a Greek isle

(5)

26 Brown backs stir us strangely — we

want to be brown all over! (9)

DOWN

1 Facial feature a little short of tan (4) 2 Sinews of a Spanish XI playing a man

short? (7) 3 Taxi in on the dot of 10 and stand

prepared for the stewards (5, 10) 4 Complied with RSVP — was well

enough (8)

5 Something to wear in the hair was

almost the making of Eve (6)

6 Council employee hybridising broom

(87)

7 Convert into money and hear the penny

drop? (7)

8 Fire, for example, ray flickering, is

fundamental (10)