Weekend crossword
ACROSS
1 Feminine supporter, one Edwin hit on
the head (7)
5 Proves error of prophet reflecting about
future (7)
9 Horsedealer, one who manages
successfully? (5)
10 Engineassisted plunge might end
trapping five (54)
11 Joined up and served in the army,
losing heart (8)
12 Rod belting retreating lord — that’s a
wicked thing! (6)
14 Unimportant at home, an omen if I have
no power (13)
17 Investigate a footprint round the North
and become ecstatic? (2,4,1,6)
19 Look goggleeyed around teatime and
be very hungry (6)
20 Estrange with an untruth, wickedly
neat (8)
23 Exhausted by a squabble, like pretty
maids (3,2,1,3)
24 Run off, reversing English post (5) 25 Projecting windows made by active
people, including marines (7)
26 I’d returned by the railway, trembling
(7)
DOWN
1 Dashing fellow’s family produces
leather (8)
2 Horrify a quiet friend (5)
3 To cherish a complaint, hospital worker
can give ear, possibly (5,1,9)
4 Disparage one, and regret deeply about
it (10)
5 Uses a blade to get a flower, we hear
(4)
6 A German left Rome after revising a
treaty, for example (6,9) 7 Stupid nit editor attempted to deceive
(5,2,2)
8 Country in the South we study (6) 13 Diana, pale journalist, is rejected (10) 15 Transmitter of messages, noteworthy,
left the Queen (9)
16 Cut off a Cambridgeshire town harshly
(8)
18 It’s detached, and is on lake also (6) 21 Poem supporting sailor’s home (5) 22 Many a weapon ’hurts (4)