Weekend crossword
2007
ACROSS
1 Friendly note evident in a brief
message (8)
5 Go off around the East, making a
frightful noise (6)
9 It’s true about head of government
being like a queen (5)
10 My acting’s rotten, jerky as it were (9) 12 What the bad tribe stirred up, anxiously
(4,5,6)
13 Front’s dropped off bed? That hurts! (4) 15 A dunce wandering, without a bit of
money, without stress (10)
18 Stores of corn found in the pub in cans
(55)
19 I’m worshipped in Hokkaido, loudly (4) 21 Tiny chest pummelled by masseur’s
artificial product (9,6)
23 Fairy’s hat, we hear, square, with
columns all round (9)
24 Rare object makes one inquisitive? Not
us (5)
25 Extortionate price answer’s seen in
reduced capital (6)
26 They speak outandout Irish endlessly
(8)
DOWN
1 Plant producing missile — give noisy
support (9) 2 Elected, acquired a mass of gold,
perhaps (5)
3 Liberal, appearing in commercials,
speaks off the cuff (24)
4 Soldiers land baby on railway (58)
6 A series about the king and me, people
who preside (8)
7 Former leaflet the editor selected (9) 8 A prophet upset him about accountant
(5)
11 Ices the nice MD distributed in a box of
remedies (85) 14 Snub, and manage to get away quickly
(3,3,3)
16 Wandering priest accommodated by
doctor, having unpaid debts (9) 17 Composing this poem is the very devil
(8)
20 The man, after fast mostly, gets
savoury dish (6)
21 Minor actor has drink with Her Majesty
(5)
22 Gathering round the navy in
Switzerland (5)