Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Friend is helped, we hear, with a fence
of stakes (9)
6 Travel a long way to achieve success
(2,3)
9 Salmon gets hard hit, observe (7) 10 Climbed an outbuilding around the pub
(7)
11 Showing cleverness by trapping fresh
water (6)
12 Great achievement sure contorted the
face (8)
14 Ggirl acrobat’s drinkholder (5,7) 17 Plucky, to keep alive in wild animal area
(4,8)
20 Dog needing double helping of food
(44)
21 A planet, when reversing rotation (6) 23 Anguish is more terrible with high
explosive about (7)
24 Guide the ball trickily and slaver (7) 25 Old poet’s house by the river (5) 26 Steed thus arrayed gets protective
cover (45)
DOWN
1 Staff grabs satchels for letters (44) 2 Need to take notice always, alas (8) 3 Feel able to notice a person stagger,
and jump over (3,4,3,5)
4 Acted without a bit of enthusiasm, and
stopped working (4)
5 Tears to pieces representative in
Norfolk town (10)
6 Is acting so to see drunk become
enraptured (2,4,9)
7 Blazing about the North’s showy dress
(6)
8 Salad ingredient artist put on plate (6) 13 Not stumbling, certainly, when getting
kicked (46)
15 Lug a bear all over the place? That may
be disputed (8)
16 Put money again in check
underclothing (8)
18 Frustrate an Aberdonian companion?
(6)
19 Go up in the front and see organised
massacre (6)
22 Leaderless teams used to come every
month in Rome (4)